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received specimens from Southern Africa, as men- 

 tioned below ; and Senegal is also given as a locality. 

 It occurs sparingly m Continental India. * 



A specimen of this very fine species, received 

 many years since, by the attention of Dr. Smith, 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, has the strong bill 

 vermilion-red, the tip of the maxilla brownish 

 black ; the forehead and crown ending in a rounded 

 point on the nape, white, but having the feathers 

 very broadly marked with black along the shafts, 

 so that to appearance there is a greater proportion 

 of the latter colour ; around the lower part of the 

 eye and the auriculars dull black ; mantle and wings 

 pale grey, the four first quills dark greyish black, with 

 strong white shafts ; tail grey, not slaving a great 

 fork, and having a dull shading band at a short 

 distance from its extremity ; back of the neck and 

 all the under parts pure white ; feet and legs black^ 

 tibiae naked for nearly an inch above the tarsal joint. 



THE SANDWICH TERN, STERNA CANTIACA. Ster- 

 na cantiaca and Boysii, Mont., Penn. ffirondell* 

 de mer Caitgek, Tetnm. Sandwich Tern of British 

 authors. In the seas bordering the Continent, the 

 Sandwich Tern is frequent, stretching to Italy. 

 Dr. Smith is said to have brouo-ht specimens from 

 South Africa, and we have skins apparently very 

 near to it from India. Mr. Audubon writes that it 

 is seen from Texas to the Floridas, where it breeds. 

 Thus, if all these authorities are correct, the range 

 * Jerdon, Blvth. 



