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STEENA FLUVIATILIS. 



(COMMON TERN.) 



Sterna hirundo, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 740 (1820, nee Linn.). 



Sterna flwoiatilis, Naum. & Br. in Brehm's Vog. Deutschl. p. 779 (1831). 



Sterna pomarina, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 781 (1831). 



Sterna marina, Eyton, Cat. Brit. B. p. 55 (1836). 



Sterna senegalensis, Sw. B. of W. Air. ii. p. 250 (1837). 



Sterna wilsoni, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. and N. Am. p. 61 (1838), 



Eydrocecropis hirundo, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 179. 



Sterna chelidon, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 97 (1854). 



Sterna blasii, Brehm, Naumania, 1855, p. 295. 



Sterna macroptera, Blasius, J. f. O. 1866, p. 76. 



Sterna dougalli, Layard, B. of S. Af. p. 369 (1867, nee Mont.). 



Common Tern, Sea-Swallow, Kirmeiv, Picket, Tarney, Pictame, BittocJc, Tarret, Spurre, 

 Scraye, Gull-teaser, English (Selhy); Pierre-Garin, French; Bondine di Mare, Italian; 

 Golondrina de Mar, Spanish ; Andorhina do Mar, Portuguese ; Fluss-Meerschwalbe, 

 kleinere Mewe, Heine Fischmewe, Fischmeive, grauer Fischer, Bohrmewe, Bohrschwalbe, 

 Schwarzkopf, Spirer, Schmirring, Tanner, German (Naumann) ; het Vischdiefje, Dutch ; 

 Fisktama, Swedish ; Makrelterne, Norwegian ; Ewtte Terne, Danish ; Krashka rashnaya, 

 Russian. 



Figure notabiles. 



Naum. Vog. Deutschl. x. Taf. 252 ; Wilson, B. of N. Am. vii. pi. 60. fig. 1 ; Audubon, 

 B. N. Am. vii. pi. 433; Yarrell, Brit. B. iii. p. 396 ; Gould, B. of Eur. v. pi. 417; Kjgerb. 

 Orn. Dan. pi. xl.«. fig. 5 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 357 ; Gould, B. Gr. Br. part viii. 



<3 astiv. supra pulchre cinereus : capite summo nuchaque nigerrimis : facie laterali alba, margine superiore a 

 basi naris infra oculum usque ad nucham produeto : tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus : remigibus 

 cinereis, rachibus albis, primarii primi margine exteriore nigro, interiore dimidialiter saturate cinereo 

 et albo, remigibus reliquis cinereis, intus plus minusve albis, pennis minoribus albo terminatis, 

 secundariis intimis dorso concoloribus : uropygio imo et supracaudalibus albis : Cauda plerumque alba, 

 reetricibus exterioribus plus minusve saturate cinereis : subtiis cinereus, vix vinaceo tiuctus, gutture 

 cum subalaribus et subcaudalibus albis : rostro corallino, versus apicem nigro : pedibus corallinis : 

 iride saturate brunneiL 



tf Mem. ex Africa australi similis ptilosi sestivse, sed loris albo variis, primariis interioribus saturatiiis cinereis, 

 rostro nigricante, et pedibus sordide flavicantibus distinguendus. 



Adult in summer. Crown of the head extending backwards far on to the nape, where it somewhat tapers 

 to a point, black ; sides of the face and neck white, this colour being drawn in a sharply defined line 



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