296 



OAVl/K. 



This widely spread species is known to breed in many localities in 

 the Atlantic and Indian Oceans ; and on the western shores of the 



Head of Sternn dorujalli. Natural size. 



Pacific is recorded from New Guinea, Australia, and New Caledonia. 

 It formerly bred in several localities on the British coasts. 



295. STERNA LONGIPENNIS. 

 (DAURIAN TERN.) 



Sterna lonyipennis, Nordmann, Ermau's Verz. vou Thiereu uiid I'flauzen, 

 p. 17 (1835). 



The Daurian Tern has a black forehead ; the upper tail-coverts arc 

 pure white ; the primaries are not margined with white towards the 

 tip; the bill is black and the feet are brown. 



Head of Slerna Ivugipennis. Natural size. 

 Figures : Middciidorff, Sibirische Rcisc, ii. pi. 25. fig. 1. 



