BLACK TERN. 



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NATATORES. 



LARIDM. 



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THE BLACK TERN. 



Sterna fissipes, 

 ,, Jissipes, 



The Black Tern, 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 199. 



201 

 Mont. Ornltli. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 217. 

 Flem. Brit. An, p. 144. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith, vol. ii. p. 477. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 268. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. iv. 

 H. de mer tpoucantuil, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 749. 



The Black Tern, of which we have figured an old male 

 in his summer dress, and a young bird of the year in autumn, 

 is like the other Terns only a summer-visiter here, but differs 

 from them a little in its habits, seldom associating with them, 

 or seen on the sea-coast except in spring, at the period of its 

 arrival, or in autumn, when about to take leave for the winter. 



