BRITISH BIRDS. 



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THE SANDWICH TERX. 



(Sterna Can tinea, Gm. Linn. Hirondelle etc iner 

 Caugeky Temm.) 



'A pair of these birds, male and female, was shot 

 on the Earn Islands, on the coast of Northumber- 

 land, in July, 1802, from the former of which this 

 figure was taken.* They measured two feet nine 

 inches from tip to tip of the wings : the bills were 

 tipped with yellow : the black feathers which 

 capped and adorned their heads were elongated 

 behind, forming a kind of peaked crest, which 

 overhung the nape and hinder part of the neck: 

 the feathers of the fore part of the neck and breast, 

 when ruffled up, appeared delicately and faintly 



* These birds, as well as specimens of nearly the whole of the 

 different kinds which breed on the Farn Isles, were, after great 

 trouble and risk, shot there, expressly for the use of this work, by 

 Major Shore and the late Major Henry Forster Gibson, of the 4th 

 dragoons, to whom the author feels deeply indebted for the facilities 

 afforded to his labours. 



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