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of the usual black, the rest of the upper-parts, with the exception of 

 the lower portion of the back and the tail, which are white, being black, 

 while the white lower surface displays a faint blush of salmon-pink, 

 which fades almost immediately after death. In winter the head and 

 neck become white with black streaks, although a black patch persists 

 in front of the eye. Young birds are distinguishable by the more or less 

 marked barring of the upper-parts with black and the horn-coloured 

 beak ; while the chick is greyish tinged with buff, and mottled with 

 black above and white below. 



The range of the Sandwich tern includes both coasts of the Atlantic, 



MOUNTED IN THE ROWLAND WARD STUDIOS 



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the breeding-area on the western side extending from New England 

 to northern Florida, and occasionally Honduras, and on the eastern 

 side from the Orkneys to Spain, and thence into the Mediterranean, 

 and so on to the Black and Caspian Seas. In winter the species 

 wanders on the western side as far as Central America, where it crosses 

 the Darien Isthmus to enter the Pacific ; and in the Old World to 

 South Africa, the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and the shores of north- 

 western India in the neighbourhood of Karachi. Although a common 

 summer-visitor to the British Islands, the species has long since deserted 

 its old breeding-haunts in the Scilly Islands, but still nests abundantly 

 on the Fame Islands, as well as in several other localities on the coasts 

 of England and Scotland and likewise in the Orkneys. In England 

 it breeds in the greatest numbers at Ravenglass, on the coast of 



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