SANDWICH 



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Genus LXXXVIII. TERN. 



N° 24. Philippine T. 



Sandwich Tern, Gen. Syn, vi. p. 356. N°9. 



T. JAM informed, that this fpecies is equally comnaon on the 



fhores o( Suffolk in the fummer, as on thofe of Kent; and that 

 it may be diftinguifhed from others both by its fuperior fize while 

 flying, as well as the difference in note *. 



Mr. Boys has obferved to me, that it has a fhorter fcream than 

 that of the Com.mon Tern, though more like it than the note of any 

 other. It is found to aflbciate with the Common "Teryit for the moft 

 part, while the Black Tern is in diftindl flights, and all of the above 

 confiderably more numerous than the Little Tern. The Sandwich 

 Tern generally is feen in the neighbourhood of Romney about the 

 17th of ^nV, and departs about the ^th. oi September, 



j». White Tern, Gen. Syn. vi, p. 363. N' 17. 



"i- WHITE T. Sterna alba, Sfarrm. Muf. Carl/, pi. n. 



'T'HIS author, in whofe work I firft obferve a figure of the 

 bird, remarks, that it inhabits the Eajl Indies, and the Caps 

 cf Good Hope, as well as various parts of the South Seas, 



• Rev. Dr. Wilgrefs,. 



Black 



