HOARY TERN. 159 



Sterna media. Horsfield. Linn. Trans, xiii. 199. 

 Black-naped Tern. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 126. 



Length fifteen inches : beak long : forehead, neck 

 behind, and under parts of the body white : crown 

 varied with black and white : nape black ; wings, 

 back, and rump glaucous : quills brown, powdered 

 with grey : feet black : the interior border of the 

 sixth, seventh, and eighth quills, is white, and very 

 regularly defined. Inhabits Java. 



HOARY TERN. 



(Sterna grisea.) 



St. supra grisea, corpore subtics, collari Jlronteque albis 3 remige 



exteriore nigricante, rostro nigro. 

 Tern above grey, with the body beneath, the collar and forehead 



white, the outer quills dusky, the beak black. 

 Sterna grisea. Horsfield. Linn. Trans, xiii. 199. 

 Hoary Tern. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 126. 



Length nine inches: beak black: body above grey : 

 forehead, a collar round the neck, and the under parts 

 of the body white ; the outer quill dusky. Inhabits 

 Java. 



