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Br. Muf. 



T EN GTH eight inches. Bill black ; one in ch and a quarter 

 in length, and moderately flout : noftrils pervious : head, 

 neck, rump, and under parts, white : acrofs the top of the head 

 dufky black, taking in the eye on each fide, and pafiing down- 

 wards in a point at the nape of the neck :..back cinereous ; fome 

 of the feathers edged with pale tawny : wing coverts fine pale 

 afli-colour, dafhed down the middle of each fhaft with dufky : 

 quills fine cinereous grey : tail fhort, very little forked, paler 

 than the quills : legs flender, orange : claws crooked, and 

 black. 



Inhabits China. It feems much allied to the lad. 



I0i 

 CHINESE T. 



Description. 



Pl 



ACK. 



Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH feven inches and a half. Bill one inch and a half, 

 black : forehead dirty buff: back, wings, and tail, dirty pale 

 afh-colour : under parts grey : quills white : tail forked : legs 

 pretty long, dufky black: webs orange. We obferved a fpecimen 

 of this which was full nine inches in length. 

 Inhabits Chriftmas IJland. 



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 SOUTHERN T. 



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SCRIPTION. 



Place. 



Sterna metopoleucos, N. C. Petr. xv. p. 475. N° 17. t. 22. (S. G. Gmelin.) 



CIZE of the Little Tern: length eight inches and a quarter. 



Bill one inch and one third long, red at the bafe, then 



ytllow, with the tip black : irides livid : the forehead white : 



the temples, the whole of the head, and neck, black : back hoary : 



10 under 



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 HOODED T. 



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SCRIPTION. 



