SOOTY TERN. 



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NA TA TORES. 





THE SOOTY TERN. 



Sterna fuliginosa. 



Sterna fuliginosa, Sooty Tern, JAKDINE'S Wilson, vol. iii. p. 182. 



NUTTALL, Man. vol. ii. p. 284. 



AUD. Birds of Amer. vol. vii. p. 93, 



pi. 432. 



Onyclwprionfuliginosus, GOULD, Birds of Australia, vol. vii. 



pi. 32. 



BY the kindness of H. W. Desvceux, Esq., of Drake- 

 low Hall, I was allowed the pleasure of exhibiting at a 

 meeting of the Linnean Society in February, 1853, a 

 well-preserved specimen of the Sooty Tern, Sterna fuli- 

 ginosa of authors. This bird was shot in October, 1852, 

 at Tutbury, near Burton-on-Trent, and was purchased by 

 Mr. Desvceux for his collection. I was permitted the 

 further use of this bird, and the figure and description 

 here given were taken from this example, the only one 

 known to have been killed in Britain. I have since 

 learned, by a communication from Alfred Newton, Esq., 



