156 WREATHED TEIIN. 



This bird is a native of Surinam : its beak, head, 

 neck, and breast are described as being black : its 

 back, wings, and tail, as being ash-coloured : the 

 belly and thighs as being dirty white ; the legs and 

 feet red, and the claws black. 



It is often seen two hundred leagues from land : 

 its principal food consists of fish. 



WREATHED TERN. 



(Sterna vittata.) 



St. cinerascens, capite superior e nigro vitta alba circumdato, uro- 



pygio crisso catidaque albis. 

 Greyish Tern with the upper part of the head black, surrounded 



by a white wreath, the rump, vent, and tail white. 

 Sterna vittata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. COD. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



807. 

 Wreathed Tern. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 359. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



U7. 



Described by Latham from the collection of the 

 late Sir Joseph Banks : " Length fifteen inches : 

 beak rather slender, near two inches in length, and 

 of a deep blood red : the top of the head, just taking 

 in the eye on each side, and to the nape behind, 

 black : this is bounded by a line of white all round : 

 the rest of the plumage a very pale ash-colour, in 

 some parts nearly white : the chin palest : rump, vent, 

 and tail pure white j the outer feathers of the last 

 inclines to ash-coloui : legs orange." He adds, "a 



