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the feathers of the back and wing coverts fringed at the ends 

 with reddifh white : fcapulars and fecond quills tipped with 

 white ; under wing covert, and ridge of the wing, white : quills 

 and tail dufky, the lafc forked ; the fhafts of both white beneath : 

 le°;s Dale reddifh brown : claws black. 



Some fpecimens have the neck and breaft feathers margined 

 with dufky. 

 Place. Inhabits Cayenne. 



13- Sterna fufcata, Lin. Syji. i. p. 228. 6. 



DUSKY T 



L'Hirondelle-de-Mer brune, Sri/. Orn. vi. p. 220. 7. pi. 21. f. 1. 



Description. Q^^E of the black Tern: length eleven inches. Bill an inch 

 and a half long, of a greyifli brown, with the tip black: the 

 head, throat, and hind part of the neck, dufky brown : back, 

 rump, fcapulars, and upper tail coverts, the fame, but the fea- 

 thers have rufous margins : fore part of the neck, and all the 

 under parts, brown : leffer and middle wing coverts above, 

 dufky brown; the greater dufky : under wing coverts cinereous 

 white : quills dufky ; the fhafts white beneath ; the two neareft 

 the body tipped with rufous : tail as the quills ; the two middle 

 ones rufous at the tips : tail fomewhat forked ; and the wings do 

 not quite reach to the end of it, when clofed : legs of a dull red : 

 claws black. 

 ?lace. Inhabits the ifland of St. Domingo. It feems greatly allied to 



the laft-defcribed, though much lefs in fize. 



Sterna 



