RECENTLY OBSERVED SPECIES. 283 



outer web ; lower parts white, shaded into brownish-grey 

 on the sides. 



Male, 15, 23, 6}, r&, 1&, 2^. Female, 13, 22. 



Common in North America. Included by Donovan in 

 his "British Birds," but without reference. A male shot 

 near Yarmouth, in the winter of 1830, and in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. Stephen Miller. 



Anas. Albeola, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 199. Anas Albeola, 

 Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 867. Fuligula Albeola, Audub. 

 Synops. 293. Buffel-headed Duck, Yarn Brit. Birds, 

 iii. 273. 



GENUS CXLVI. STERNA. TERN. 



338. STERNA LEUCOPAREIA. WHISKERED TERN. 



Bill rather stout, red ; feet red, with the webs very deeply 

 cut out, the inner very small ; middle toe and claw about as 

 long as the tarsus ; upper part of the head and nape black ; 

 a white band from the bill, under the eye, to the ear ; upper 

 parts, including the wings and tail, uniform dark bluish- 

 grey ; first quill leaden-grey on the outer web and a portion 

 of the inner, the rest white, the other quills with the outer 

 web lighter ; the lower parts dark-grey ; the throat, lower 

 wing, and tail- coverts, white. 



A , 1 . , , i n 3 i i 1 o 9 4 



AdUlt, 11^, . ., &IQ, tjgj i^> \ ( 2i i2' 



Of this species, which has been met with on the Medi- 

 terranean coasts, a specimen shot in the end of August 

 1836, near Lyme, has been figured and described by Mr. 

 Yarrell. 



Sterna leucopareia. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. ii. 746. Whis- 

 kered Tern, Yarr. Brit. Birds, iii. 404. 



339. STERNA LEUCOPTERA. WHITE-WINGED BLACK 



TERN. 



Bill about the same length as the head, very slender, 

 brown ; feet red, with the webs very deeply cut out, the 

 inner reduced to a mere rudiment ; head, neck, back, 

 breast, abdomen, and lower wing- coverts, glossy black ; 

 smaller wing-coverts, tail and its coverts, white; outer 

 three quills black, with a broad band of white along the 

 inner webs ; the rest of the wings ash-grey, darker towards 

 the body. 



As intimated by Mr. Frederick M'Coy, in Ann. of Nat. 

 Hist. XV. 271, a specimen of this Tern was shot by J. 



