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WHITE TERN. 



(Sterna alba.) 



St. corpore toto albo, rostro pedibus nigris. 



Tern with the body entirely white, the beak and legs black. 



Sterna alba. Sparr. Mus. Car-Is. fas. 3 pl.ll. Gmcl. Syst. Nat. 



1. 607. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 808. 

 Sterna Candida. Gtnel. Syst. Nat. 1. 607. 

 White Tern. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 363. Lath. Syn. Sup. 266. 



Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 109. 



Inhabits various parts of the East Indies, the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and other southern parts : its 

 length is thirteen inches : its beak is slender and 

 black : the eye-lids are also black : the general colour 

 of the plumage is snowy white ; with the shafts of 

 the quills, scapulars, and tail (except its three outer 

 feathers) black : the legs are brown ; the webs orange, 

 and the claws black. 



EGYPTIAN TERN. 



(Sterna Nilotica.) 



St. cinerea subtus alba, vertice colloquc supcriore maculis nigri- 



cantibus, orbit is nigris albo-macidatis. 

 Ash-coloured Tern beneath white, with the crown and neck above 



with dusky spots, the orbits black spotted with white. 



