304 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
A similar specimen I got once in a collection of Mr. Layard from Table Bay, s. n. 
St. dougalli. It is undoubtedly the species noticed under this title in his ‘ Birds of 
South Africa,’ being very common in Table Bay. Mr. Layard unfortunately does not 
describe African specimens, but copies his description from the true S¢. dougalli in 
M‘Gillivray’s ‘ British Birds.’ 
St. senegalensis, from the Gold Coast, in the Leyden Museum, where I have compared 
the specimens, belongs also to St. macroptera. The true St. senegalensis, Sws., has the 
bill and feet red. 
This species has not been recorded from the Red Sea. St. senegalensis, Heugl. (Ibis, 
1859, p. 351), refers to St. albigena, Licht.—O. F. 
218. Sterna minuta, L. 
Sternula minuta, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 140. no. 521; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 731; id. Fauna des 
Roth. Meer, no. 816. 
a. d. Zoulla. June 9. 
An old male in full dress; quite agreeing with European ones. Bill reddish, with 
black apical third. 
Long. al. Rectr. ext. Culm. Tars. 
6! gu gi All 13!" gi _§_Q, EF. 
[Beak yellow, tip black; legs and feet yellow. 
Only one procured. 7. J.] 
219. STERNA , sp.t 
3. Zoulla. June 7 (no. 14). 
Long. al. Rectr. ext. Rectr. intern. Rostr. Tars. Dig. med. 
6! ol 1! 10" Vo eu 113" 7a 5a" 
6 3 2 4 1 7 123 63 5 .... balenarum. 
Front, forehead, lores, sides of the head, and all the under parts, including the 
under wing-coverts, white; vertex mixed with greyish-brown feathers; temporal, 
occiput, nape, and a spot before the eye brownish black; the upper parts, including 
the upper tail-coverts, delicate ashy grey; the smallest wing-coverts along the cubitus 
brownish; primaries dark greyish brown, on the inner web broadly margined with 
white nearly to the apical third; shafts of the primaries dark blackish brown, beneath 
white ; tail-feathers ashy grey, on the basal half of the inner web white; the outermost 
tail-feather wholly white. Bill black; legs horn-brown; nails black. 
The specimen is moulting, and apparently a young bird: I abstain therefore from 
declaring it to be new, although I am unable to refer it to any of the known species. 
It agrees in most respects with the winter dress of S¢. minuta, but differs in having the 
bill black and the legs dark. Can these differences be the consequences of age or 
season ? 
