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SHORT-TAILKD NODDY. 



(Anous plumbea.) 



An. albus, vertex, auricula, macula ante oculos, occipiteque nigris, 

 dor so humerisque saturate cinereis, pennis apice juscis, alia 

 caudaque plumbeis. 



White Noddy with the crown, auriculars, a spot before the eyes, 

 and the occiput black, the back and shoulders dark ash, the 

 tips of the feathers brown, the wings and tail lead-coloured. 



Sterna plumbea, or short-tailed Tern. Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. 

 ;;. 83.;;/. \xx.f. 3. 



Short-tailed Tern. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 130. 



Length eight inches and a half: the beak, crown, 

 auricles, spot before the eye and the occiput black : 

 the forehead, eyelids, sides of the neck passing round 

 to the nape, and all the under parts, pure white : 

 back and shoulders dark cinereous, the feathers broadly 

 tipped with brown : wings and tail dark lead colour : 

 legs tawny. 



Inhabits America : discovered by Wilson after a vio- 

 lent storm, which inundated the meadows of Schuyl- 

 kill, and by causing the insects therein to float on 

 the water, attracted several hundreds of this species ; 

 some of which were killed, and upon examination 

 proved to be no-n-descript : their stomachs were found 

 to contain grasshoppers, crickets, spiders, &c. but 

 no fish. 



