358 T E R N. 



9» Sterna r.aavia, Lin. SyJI. i. p. 228. 5. 



•*■ Var. A. Rallus lariformis", Scop. Ann. \. N" 156 *. 



L'Hirondelle-de-Mer tachetee, Br//. Orn. v'u p. 216. 6. pi. 20, rig. 2. 

 La Guifette, Bit/. Oif. viii. p. 339. — P/. £»/. 924. 

 Cloven-footed Gull, Albhi, ii. pi. 82. 

 Kamtfchatkan Tern, ^nS 1 . Zoo/, p. 525. A. 



Lev. M,</. 



Description. T ENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill dufky : back part of 

 the head and nape black, edged with rufous brown : the eye 

 half furrounded at the back part with a black crefcent : the reft 

 of the head, neck, and under parts, white : back and wings of a 

 blueifh brown, the margins of the feathers paler : the outward 

 part of the wing more inclined to blue grey : the wings exceed 

 the tail in length ; the laft very little forked : legs dufky 

 brown. 

 Place and This by authors has been confidered as a /pedes ; but is 



no doubt a young bird merely of the Sandwich "Tern. Buffon 

 fays it is, in the ftate he defcribes, common on the coafts of 

 Picardy ; that it lays about three eggs on a bed of dry leaves, 

 among the grafs, and fits feventeen days, and the young are all 

 hatched at once. Has alfo been obferved about Kamtfchatka-f. 



Manners. 



10. 

 STRIATED T 



' CIZE of the white Tern? Bill black: irides lead-colour: 



r,.,„ 8I . T ,.„ the crown of the head, and fides, below the eyes, white, 



* Rallus fubtus albido-flavefcens, cervice cserulefcenti maculato digitis mar- 

 ginatis. — Lin. SyJI. i, p. 153. N° 3. (edit. 10.) 

 t Aril. Zoo!. 



mottled 



