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upper wing coverts, afh-colour : lower part of the breaft, belly, 

 thighs, under wing coverts, and vent, white : quills deeper co- 

 loured at the ends : tail as the quills ; but the outer one on each 

 fide white on the outer web, margined with afh-colour : fhape of 

 the tail a little forked: legs of a dull red: claws black. 

 Place. Said to inhabit various parts of Europe; but we do not recol- 



lect to have feen the bird. It is moil likely a variety of the laft, 

 as we have obferved more or lefs white between the legs of fome 

 fpecimens. 



2 , Brown Tern, Rati Syn. p. 131. A. 15. — Will. Qrn. p. 352. — Br. Zool. ii, 



BROWN T. N° 253. 



Description. " ^pHE whole under fide is white; the upper brown: wings 

 " partly brown partly afh-colour : the head black : the 

 " tail not forked. Thefe birds fly in companies." Such is the 

 defcription of Ray and Willughby, from which no certainty can 

 be drawn. It is probably, from the circumftance of the tail not 

 being forked, a young bird ; but whether of the Tern or Gull 

 kind yet remains in obfcurity. 



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