Class II. SANDWICH TERN. 201 



lead color; the first five quils hoary black, 

 the inner webs deeply margined with white; 

 the sixth like the others, but much paler ; the 

 rest of the quils like the back ; the tail is fork- 

 ed ; the outer feather six inches and a quarter 

 in length; the wings reach rather beyond it; 

 the x^gs and claws, the under part of the feet, 

 dusky red. 



These birds frequent the neighborhood of 

 Sandzvich in great numbers, and are not uncom- 

 mon on the eastern coast of the kingdom. Ed. 



Sterna Boysii. /3. St. cauda La Guisette. Brisson av. vi, (^.-j Kams= 



emarginata corpore variega- 2lQ.tab.20.f.2. Hist.d'ois. chatkan. 



to, macula aurium nigra. viii. 33g. PI. Enl. 924. 



Lath. Ind. orn. 806. id. Kamschatkan Tern. ^rc^. Zoo/. 



Sijn. \i. 3b%.} ii. 240. 



Sterna nsevia. Gm. Lin. 609. ? 



X HE bill black ; the forehead and space on Descrip. 

 each side of the bill white; the crown of the 

 head black, which color is continued below, 

 and on each side ends in a point behind and be- 

 fore; the cheeks, neck, beginning of the back, 

 and the whole under side, white ; the upper part 

 of the back cinereous brown ; the rest of the 

 plumage, the wings, and the tail, grc}'^, dark 

 almost to duskiness on the ridge of the wings ; 



TION. 



