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the tail edged with white : legs dufky red. The male has a fpot 

 of white under the chin. 



This, like the other Brilijh fpecies, frequents our fhores in Place and- 

 fummer i but is likewife very common a great way up many Manners. 

 rivers, and feveral of our fens : now and then feen about reedy 

 places, and neglected fijh-ponds. The eggs are three or four in 

 number, of a dirty greenifh colour, fpotted with black, and fur- 

 rounded with a band of black about the middle; thefe it lays, 

 among the reeds, in the fens or other marfhy places. The food 

 confifts of infeSs * and fmall fifh, the addrefs to procure which 

 is much the fame as in others of this genus. It is called about 

 Cambridge the Car-Swallow. On the continent it is found pretty 

 far north : very numerous in Sibiria, and about the fait lakes of 

 the defarts of Tartary. In Europe, as far as Iceland. Suppofed to 

 inhabit Hudfon's Bay f ; and is probably the fame which was ken 

 in vaft flocks, beyond lat. 41. north, long. 47. W. by Mr. Kalm^ 

 fomewhat fouth of the bank of Newfoundland %. 



Sterna nigra, Lin.Syft. i. p; 227. 3. — Faun. Suec. N° 159. — Muller,_N° 171. ? z . 



— Georgi Rei/e, p. 1 7 1. Var. A. 



L'Hirondelle-de-Mer a tete noire, ou Ie Gachet, Brif. Orn- vi. p. 214. 5* 



— Buf. Oi/, viii. p. 342. 



'T' HI S is a trifle bigger than the laft : length nine inches and Description. 



a half. Bill black : the head, neck, and breaft, the fame : 

 round the eyes a few grey feathers : back, rump, fcapulars, and^ 



* Beetles and Maggots found in the ftomach of one. — Will. p. 354* 

 t Ar8. Zool. 



X Kalm fays, it was rather darker than the common Sea-Swallow ; the flocka 

 confifted of feme hundreds, and fometimes fettled on the lhip. — Tra<v. i- p. 23. 



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