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Sterna Hirundo, Lin. Syft. i. p. 227. 2.— Faun. Suec. N° 158.— Haffety. 



p. 272. N° 40. — Scop. Ann. i. N° m.—Brun. N° 151. 152. — Muller, 



p. 21.— Faun. Groenl. N° 69.— Kram. El. p. 345. (Larus.J — Frifcb. 



ii. 219. 

 La grande Hirondelle-de-Mer, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 203. 1. pi. 19. fig. 1. — 



Buf. Oif. viii. p. 331. pi. 27. — PL Enl. 987. 

 The Sea-Swallow, Rati Sjn. p. I31. A. 1. 191. 7.— Will. Orn.^.^l. 



pi. bi.—Albin, ii. pi. 88. 

 Great Tern, Br. Zool. N° 254. pi. 90. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Ma/. 



~ '4- 

 +■ COMMON T. 



T ENGTH fourteen inches, or more : breadth thirty : weight 

 four ounces and a quarter. Bill flender, two inches and a 

 half long; the colour crimfon, and pointed at the end, where it 

 is black : the top of the head, taking in the eyes and nape, 

 black, tapering to a point at the back part of the neck : between 

 the noftrils and eye, fides under it, neck, and all the under parts, 

 pure white : the back and wings are of a fine pale afli-colour : 

 quills grey -, two or three of the outer ones very dark ; the fhafts 

 white : tail greatly forked, white, except the outer web of the ex- 

 terior feather, which is black : the legs are crimfon : claws 

 black. 



This is a very common fpecies, and frequents our fea-coafts, 

 and banks of lakes and rivers, during the fummer; but moft 

 common in the neighbourhood of the fea. Found alfo in various 

 parts of Europe and Jfia, according to the feafon : in the fummer 

 as far as Greenland and Spitsbergen % migrating in turn to the 

 fouth of Aujlria and Greece. It lays three or four eggs, about the 

 month of June, of a dull olive-colour, an inch and three quarters 



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