NEW HOLLAND TERN. l6l 



Sterna Nilotica. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1 . 606. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



806. 

 Egyptian Tern. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 976. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 



110. 



Described as being of the size of a Pigeon : its 

 beak is black: the head and upper part of the neck 

 cinereous, sprinkled with small blackish spots : orbits 

 black, dotted with white : the back, wings, and tail 

 cinereous : the outer quills deep cinereous : all the 

 under-parts of the plumage white : the legs red : 

 claws black. Inhabits Egypt : appearing in flocks 

 on the mud of the Nile, during the month of Ja- 

 nuary : it feeds on insects, small fish, &c. 



NEW HOLLAND TERN. 



(Sterna Novae Hollandise.) 



St. fusca, sitbtus Jronteque alba, dorso variegato. 



Brown Tern with the under parts and forehead white, the back 



variegated. 

 New Holland Tern. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 103. 



" Length fourteen or fifteen inches : beak one 

 inch and a half; black, curved at the tip: irides 

 blue : tongue longish and pointed : top of the head 

 and behind the neck brown : back the same, but 

 darker and mottled : forehead and all beneath white : 

 quills brown ; reaching much beyond the tail : legs 



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