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JAVAN TERN. 

 (Sterna Javanica.) 



St. glauca, gula malts cervice postice alis cauddque infra albis, 

 capite suprdjiigro, remigibus griseo-fuscescentibus interne plagd 

 albidd notatis, rostro pedibusque Jiavis . 



Glaucous Tern, with the throat, cheeks, cervix behind, wings, and 

 tail beneath white, the head above black, the quills grey- 

 brownish marked internally with a white dash, the beak and 

 legs yellow. 



Sterna Javanica. Horsfield, Linn. Trans, xiii. 198. 



Javan Tern. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 125. 



Length eleven inches : prevailing colour glau- 

 cous, throat, cheeks, neck behind, wings and tail be- 

 neath white : head above black : quills brownish-grey, 

 marked within with a whitish patch : beak and legs 

 yellow. Inhabits Java. 



BLACK-NAPED TERN. 

 (Sterna media.) 



St. fronte cervice postice et partibus hiferioribus albis, pileo albo 

 nigroque vario, nucha atra, alis dorso uropygioquc glaucis, 

 remigibus supra Juscis cano pulverulentis, subtus dimidio ex- 

 teriore intense glaucis interiore albis. 



Tern with the forehead, neck behind, and under parts of the body 

 white, the pileus varied with white and black, the nape dark, 

 the wings, back, and rump glaucous, the quills above brown 

 sprinkled with hoary, beneath with the outer half intense 

 glaucous, the interior white. 



