5H GR E KT AND L E S S E R T"E R N. 



fly fo clofe to the few men who vifit that diftant ifle, as almoft to 

 touch theni. They lay only two or three eggs, which are of a fur- 

 prizing fize, yellowIHi, fpotted with brown and pale violet. The 

 flocks which poffefs the different parts of the ifle, lay at different 

 times. In 'fome quarters the young were found very large j in 

 others only a fingle egg was found juft then layed. Mr. OJbeck 

 and Doftor Forjiery who were here in April z.nd. May, are filent about 

 this fpecies : pofTibly it was then on its migrations. It is to the 

 ,-Comte de Buffon * we owe this account j who received it from 

 that obfervant nobleman the Marquis de ^M^ri'Od')^;. 



.44.?. Gbe-wT. 5r. 'Zoo/, ii. N° 354. — Sterna Hirundo, Tama, Faun.'Saec. N" i^S. 



Le Pierre garin, ou grande Hirondelle de mer, De Buffon, viii. 331, — Fl. Er.l. 

 987. — Latham,m. — Lev. Mus.— -Bl. Mus. 



"With bill and feet of a fine crimfon color : forehead, throat, and' 

 •whole under fide, of a pure white : crown black : upper part 

 of the body, and coverts of the wings, an elegant pale grey : tail much 

 forked, white, with the exterior edges of the three outmoft grey* 

 Weight four ounces one quarter. Length fourteen inches. Extent 

 thirty. 

 Flabe. Inhabits Europe-, as high as Spitzhergen ; and alfo the northern 



parts of North America, as far as Hudfon's Bay. It appears in New 

 England in May., and goes away in autumn : called there the Mackerel 

 Gull. It is found on the ArSiic coafls of Sibiria and Kamtfchatka^ 

 Retires even from England at approach of winter, 



,^19. ILesser. !Br. Zool. ii. N° 255. — Sterna minuta, Lin. "Sjjl. 228. 



La petite Hirondelle de mer, De Buffon, viii. 337. — PI. Enl. 996. — Latham, iii. 

 Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



'X* With a yellow bill and legs ; the firft tipt with black : forehead 



and cheeks white : from the back to the eyes is a black line : 



crown black : breafl and belly of the mofb exquifite and glolTy white- 



^ncfsJ unequalled by the finefl fatin : back and wings of apale grey : tail 



* Oif. viii. 345. 



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