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Young. Head streaked aud mottled with brownish black ; feathers 

 of the upper parts dark brown with rufous tips, which subsequently 

 become paler, approaching white, and finally wear awaj" ; underparts 

 greyish white ; bill and toes brownish. 



Adults from the West Indies show a trifle more white in the 

 outer tail-feathers than is the case with some Oriental examples, 

 but birds from the Red Sea are absolutely identical with the 

 former. 



Hab. Intertropical and juxta-tropical seas : — Gulf of Mexico and 

 West Indies J West Africa, Lower Eed Sea, East Africa, Mada- 

 gascar and Mascarene Islands, and Indian Ocean generally ; 

 Moluccas, China Seas up to Japan, Pelew Is. &c., New Guinea, 

 Iforthern Australia, the Fiji, Tonga, EUice, and Phoenix Groups. 

 In the Low Archipelago and in the Sandwich Islands Group the 

 representative appears to be S. lunata. 



«. Imm. sk. 



h. Imm. sk. 



c, d. Ad. et juv. 



St. 



e. Vi.x ad. sk. 



f,g. 6^ ad. sk. 

 h-k. S $ ad. sk. 



I, m. S ad. sk. 



71, o. Ad. sk. 



j>. Ad sk. 

 q. Imm. sk. 



r, s. cJ 5 ad. sk. 

 t. Vix ad. sk. 



u-iv. cj ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 .r. Vix ad. sk. 

 y. cS juv.; z-7i'. 



cJ 2 iiim- sk. 

 o'. 2 juv. sk. 



p'. Juv. sk. 



</', )•'. S 2 imui. 



sk. 

 s. Juv. sk. 

 t', u'. Ad. etimm. 



sk. 

 v'. 2 ad. ; w'. J 



juv. sk. 

 i'. 2 imm. ; y'. c? 



juv. sk. 



Massowa, Red Sea, Aug. Tweeddale Coll. 



( TV. Jesse). 

 Red Sea {Capt. Feilden, R.A.) 

 Red Sea. 



Red Sea (Semprich ^- Ehren- 



berg). 

 Red Sea, April {A.Anderson). 

 Red Sea (southern part), May 



(A. B. Meyer). 

 Red Sea, off Perim I., Aug. 31 



( W. T. Blanford). 

 Gulf of Aden, April {E. Lort 



Phillijis). 

 Gulf of Aden, April. 

 Mozambique. 



Sevchelles. 



Bird I., Seychelles (Br. Cop- 



pinger). 

 Mekran Coast, May-June 



{Col.E. A. Butler). 

 Mekran Coast (Capt. Bishop). 

 Cherbaniani Reef, Laccadive 



Is., Feb. (A. O. H.). 

 Off Laccadive Is., 10° N., 



70° E. (G. Stephen). 

 Indian Ocean, 5° 28' N., 



63° 53' E.,Nov. {H.O.Forbes) 

 Off Cape Comorin, Sept. 



{Douker). 

 Ceylon. 

 Ceylon {Col.W. V.Legge). 



Trincomalee, N.E. Cevlon, 

 April & Dec. ( W. T. L). 



Colombo, Ceylon, May & 

 Oct. ( W. V.^L.) 



H. Saunders Coll. 

 J. Middleton, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



H. Saunders CoU. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Abyssinian Exped. 



Shelley CoU, 



Major Yerbury [P.]. 

 — Thompson, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Yoy.H.M.S.' Alert.' 



Hume Coll. 



Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 



H. Saunders CoU. 



H. Saunders Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Tweedilile CoU. 

 H. Saunders Coll. 



R. B. Sbai-pe, Esq, 



[R]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



