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The Daurian Tern is the eastern representative of the Common 

 Terrij and breeds in Eastern Siberia, wintering in Japan and China. I 

 have an example collected by Mr. Snow on Eturop, the most southerly 

 of the Kurile Islands, where it probably breeds (Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 23). In the Tweeddale collection is a skin from Yczzo (Saunders, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 650) j and I have an example collected by 

 Mr. Pryer in Tokio Bay. 



296. STERNA MELANAUCHEN. 

 (BLACK-NAPED TERN.) 



Sterna tnelanauchen, Temminck, Planches Colorizes, no. 427 (1827). 



The Black-naped Tern has a black patch covering the nape and 

 passing through each eye to the lores, in strong contrast to the 

 white forehead and crown. The bill and the feet are black. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Australia, vii. pi. 28. 



Head of Sterna melanauchen. Natural size. 



There is an example of the Black-naped Tern from the Loo-Choo 

 Islands in the Pryer collection (Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 181). It 

 breeds on the rocks outside Amoy Harbour (Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1871, p. 422) ; and is found in the Indian Ocean as far west as 

 the Andaman Islands (Walden, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 556), and 

 in the Pacific as far south as New Caledonia (Layard, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 365), and as far east as the Samoa Group. 



