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fide to the upper part of the eye, where it ends in a point : through 

 the eye a ftreak of black, pafling to the hind head : the crown, 

 nape, hind part of the neck, and all the upper parts, wings, and tail, 

 are black : the under parts, from the chin, white, paffing a little 

 backwards at the lower part of the neck : the under wing coverts, 

 and inner ridge of the wing, white : quills dark greyifh black : 

 tail forked ■, the outer web of the exterior feather white, except 

 juft at the tip : the fhafts of both quills and tail are white be- 

 neath : legs black. 



This fpecies feems pretty far fpread, being met with in various Place and 

 parts by our voyagers. Sir AJhton Lever received it from New 

 Tork, from whence alfo I faw one in the collection of Colonel 

 Davies ; and in another collection a third, which came from 

 Cayenne. In the ifland of Afcenfion, they are in prodigious num- 

 bers. Damper met with them off" the coaft of New Holland, and 

 in great plenty in the Roca iflands, near Tortuga *, where he has 

 feen the nefts j and our late circumnavigators, between New 

 South Wales and New Guinea, where one of thefe fettled on the 

 rigging f. It alfo fometimes ftrays farther fouth, as it has been 

 feen in lat. 48. 38 %. Moft failors agree that this, and others of 

 the Noddy tribe, feen at fea, mew the vicinity of land, and that 

 they feldom go above feventy or eighty leagues from it; but 

 Capt. Cook fays, this mark is not always to be relied on §. The 

 fpecimen in my collection came from Chriftmas ljland, where it is 

 gregarious. It lays a fingle egg upon the bare ground, in the 

 month of December, making no neft. 



• Damp. Voy. vol. iii. part 1. p. 143. — vol. i.p.53. + Haivkef. Voy. iii. p. 652. 

 % Forji. Voy. i. p. 1 13, — Cook's Voy, i. p. 66. § Voy. i. p. 275. 



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