528 

 NATATOBES. 



LARIDJE. 



LARID^!. 





THE BLACK TERN. 



Sterna fissipes. 



Sterna fissipes, The Black Tern, 

 ncevia, 



mgra, 



H. de mer 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 199. 

 p. 201. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

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

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 144. 

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

 JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 268. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 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 visitor 

 here, but differs from them a little in its habits, seldom 

 associating with them, or seen on the sea-coast, except in 



