TERN. NATATORES. STERNA. 477 
the rest pearl-grey. Tail white, and forked. Wings, 
when closed, extending beyond the tail. Legs and toes 
yellow; the tarsi about five-eighths of an inch in length. 
Fig. 4. is the Young Bird, when fledged. 
Forehead, crown, and occiput, cream-yellow, varied with 
blackish-grey on the latter part. Back, scapulars, 
and part of the wing-coverts cream-yellow, each feather 
having an angular bar near the tip. Chin, throat, and 
under plumage, white. Tail white at the base, passing 
into cream-yellow at the tip. Bill pale yellow, with its 
tip blackish-brown. Legs and toes pale sienna-yellow. 
The winter plumage of the adult differs from that of the 
summer only, in having the black upon the head less 
intense, and the white of the forehead extending farther 
backwards. 
BLACK TERN. 
STERNA NiGRA, Linn. 
PLATE XCI. 
Sterna nigra, Linn. Syst. 1. 227. 3.—Gumel. Syst. 1. 608.—Lath. Ind. Orn- 
2. 810. sp. 24.—Briss. Orn. 6. 211. 4.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 144. No. 236: 
Sterna fissipes, Linn. Syst. 1. 228. 7.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 610.—Lath. Ind. Orn- 
2. 810. sp. 23. 
Sterna atricapilla, Briss. Orn. 6. 214. 5. 
Larus niger Gesneri, Rati Syn. 131. A. 3.— Will. 269. 
Larus minor fidipes nostras, Raii Syn. 132. A. 6.—Will. 270. 
Larus niger fissipes alis longioribus, Aldrov. Raii Syn. 131. 4.—Wiil. 270. 
t. 68. 
rales nigra, Leach in Cat. Br. Mus.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 13. 167. 
pl. 19. 
Hirondelle-de-Mer noir ou l’Epouvantail, Buff: Ois, 8. 341.—Id. Pl. Enl. 
333.—Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 749. 
Hirondelle-de-Mer 4 Téte noir, ou le Gachet, Buff: Ois. 8. 342. 
Schwarze und Schwarzkehliger Meerschwalbe, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 
692. and 697. 
Schwarzgraue Meerschwalbe, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 461. 
Lesser Sea Swallow, Albin’s Birds, 2. t..89.—Lath. Syn. 6. 367. 22. A. 
Black Tern, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 547. No. 256.—Arct. Zool. 2. 450.—Laih. 
Syn. 6, 366. 22.Id. Sup. 267.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 6. pl. 206.— Mond. 
Young. 
