STERNIN &. 431 
SAUNDER’S LITTLE TERN. 
Length, 9°12 ; expanse, 19°25; wing, 6°43 ; tail, 3; tarsus, 0°6 ; 
bill from gape, 1°5. 
Bill yellow, tipped dusky ; irides blackish brown ; legs and feet 
dusky yellowish-olive. 
A triangular frontal patch, the angles reaching to within 0°12 of 
the eyes, white ;a very broad stripe through the lores to the eye 
black ; a narrow white line intervenes between this stripe and the 
upper mandible; the whole crown, occiput, short occipital crest 
and sides of occiput as low as the lower margin of the eye, velvet- 
black, the central two-thirds of the lower eyelid white, and no 
black below this ; all the rest of the sides of head and neck, chin, 
throat, entire under parts, wing-lining and exterior tail-feathers, 
pure white ; the first three primaries black with black shafts and 
broad white margins on their inner webs; their greater coverts 
dusky black ; the whole of the rest of the upper surface, including 
wings and tail, and excepting parts and feathers already described, 
a most delicate satin-grey, contrasting in the strongest manner 
with the early black primaries. 
Saunder’s Little Tern is very abundant at Kurrachee and along 
the adjacent coast. It is a permanent resident, breeding during 
April and May. The eggs, two in number, are deposited in a small 
depression in the sand. They are rather longish ovals pointed 
at one end ; the ground color is drab or stone, and the markings 
consist of spots, streaks, and blotches ofa dark or reddish-brown 
color. 
They measure 13 inches in length by 0°99 in breadth. 
Sterna bergii, Licht. 
989.—T. cristatus, Steph.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 
842; Butler, Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 441; 
Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 322. 
THE LARGE SEA TERN. 
Length, 17 to 18; wing, 13 to 14; tail, 7 ; tarsus, 1:25; bill 
at front, 2°5. 
Bill pale yellow ; irides dark brown ; legs black. 
Head, with the longish occipital crest, deep -glossy-black ; 
forehead, lores, ear-coverts, nape, and all the lower parts silky- 
white ; back, wings and tail, rather darkish silvery-grey ; edge 
of the wing and tips of the secondaries white; quills dark at 
the base and tip, hoary or silvery toward the terminal portion, 
with the inner web and shafts white internally, diminishing in 
quantity from the first. 
The Large Sea Tern is very common at Kurrachee and all 
along the sea coast. It breeds during April and May, on 
islands in the Persian Gulf, in company with many other species 
of Terns. Boat loads of eggs are annually brought into 
Kkurrachee. The eggs are broad ovals, much pointed at one end ; 
