BLACK TERN. 



N ATA TORES. 



523 

 LARID^E. 







THE BLACK TERN. 



Sterna fissipes, The Black Tern, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 199. 



navia, 201. 



Jissipcs, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



nigra, 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 tpouvantail, 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 asso- 

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



