G Uy BE, 
** Witu SuHort Lees: 
Genus XCIV. G Puig oe 
N° 1. Brown G. N° 3. Pulo Condor G, 
2, Pacific G. 4. Skua G. 
Sterna obfcura, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 810. 25- 
Brown Tern, Gez, Syz. vi. p. 368. 23. 
Bird which we have very little doubt is the Brown Tern, hitherto 
fo cailed, fell under the obfervation of ray friend Mr. Boys, of 
Sandwich, a few years fince. He obferves that it is a beautiful {pe- 
cies, but without a fingle character of the Tern; the bill like that 
of the Cinereous Tern, but longer and more flender, yellow to the 
hook in the upper mandible, and to the gibbous part of the lower ; 
from thence black: length to the toes and tail fifteen inches and a 
half; to the tips of the wings eighteen inches; breadth eighteen inches; 
weight eight ounces and a half avoirdupois: the hind head and nape 
dufky : at the anterior angle of the orbit, a black fpot; another of the 
fame behind the ear: forehead, throat, fore part of the neck, belly, 
vent, and rump, pure white: back, fcapulars, upper range of coverts 
next the body grey; middle feries of coverts brown, edged and tipped 
with white; lower feries grey, with white tips: baftard wing com- 
poled of three feathers black and white: quills deeply tipped wich 
black, fringed with white : middle of the feathers and the fhafts white ; 
outer web banded with black ;. inner webs with dufky, but deeper; 
fecondaries dufky, tipped with grey: tail of twelve feathers; the two 
external ones white, the reft white with a bar of dufky; legs dufky 
orange: claws black. 
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