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CAYENNE T. 

 Description. 



Place. 



La grande Hirondelle de Mer de Cayenne, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 346. — PI. 

 Enl 988. 



T ENGTH fixteen inches. Hind part of the head black: 

 upper parts of the plumage grey, the feathers edged with 

 pale rufous : the under parts of the body white. 

 Inhabits Cayenne. 



SURINAM T. 

 Description, 



Place. 



Greater Tern, Hifl. de Surin. ii. p. 187. 



C I Z E not mentioned. Bill, head, neck, and breafr, black : 

 back, wings, and tail, afh-colour : belly and thighs dirty 

 white : legs and feet red : claws black. 



Inhabits Surinam ; but is often feen two hundred leagues from 

 land. Its food in common \sfijh, and it will often purfue the leffer 

 ones in order to make them difgorge what they have fwallowed, 

 which it feizes on as lawful prey *. We have feen fuch a kind of 

 bird in a collection which came from Cayenne, which differed only 

 in having the vent rufous. This laft was the fize of the Noddy. 



SOOTY T. 



Descp ITTION. 



L'Hirondelle de Mer a. grande envergure, Buf. Oif viii. p. 345. 



Egg-Bird, Forft. Voy. i. p. 113. — Cook's Voy. i. p. 66. 275. 



Noddy, Damp. Voy. iii. part 1. p. 142. pi. in p. 123. fig. 5. — Haivkef. 



Voy. iii. p. 652. 

 Sooty Tern, ArB. Zool. N° 447. 



Lev. Muf. 



ClZE of the Noddy: length fixteen inches. Bill two inches 

 and a quarter, black : the forehead is white, paffing on each 



* Were it not for this ' circumftance proving it to be a bird of a larger 

 ize, we Ihould conclude it to be the black Tern, or its variety. 



fide 



