WLACK AND KAMTSCHATKAN TER'lf?. ^ , -525 



■ white ; lefs forked than that of the preceding. Weight two ounces eight 

 ,grains : Length eight inches and a half : Extent nineteen and a half. 



This fpecies is too tender to endure the-high northern latitudes, nor Place, 



•even beyond the B^altic. Is met with in the fouth ai Rujfia, and 



about the Black and Cajpian fea^ and in Sibiria about the htijh. In 



America is feen, during fummer, about New Tork. 



Sr. 7.00L ii. N''-z56.— Sterna-fiflipes, Lin. Syjl. 228. 450. Black. 



Le Guifette noire, ou I'Epouvantail, De Bvjfoit, viii= 341.''— F/. Eal. 333--*— 

 Latham, iii. — ^Lbv. Mus;'— Bl. Mus. 



'T' With the bill, head, neck, breaftj and belly, black: vent white : 

 wings and back of a deep afh-color: tail (hortj exterior fea- 

 thers white J the others cinereous: legs a dirty red: webs deeply 

 hollowed in the naiddle, fo as to form a crefcent. 



This is the fpecies which I apprehend was fent to the Royal Society Place. 



from Hudfotfs Bay ; and was fe€n in vaft flocks beyond lat, 41 north, 

 long. 47 wefl from London, by Mr. Kalm *, fomewhat fouth of the 

 ■bank o^' Newfoundland. Is found in Europe, as far as Iceland. Very 

 numerous in Sibiria,. and about the fait lakes of the defarts of Tartary^ 

 which they animate by their note and adtive flight and motions. 



Kamtschatkan. Pal-las, MS. 

 _La©uiiFette? Z)^-P»^o», viii. 339.— P/. £«/. 524. 



'T^ With the bill and crown black : forehead and Tpace over th'6 

 eyes white. 

 Obferved by Steller about Kamtfchatka. A bird feemingly of this PIacb. 



fpecies was fliot on the Severn a few miles below Shrewjbury -, and is 



^Voyage, i, 23, 



among 



