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STERNID^. 
edged with white; the tail white ; the beak, and legs, and 
feet are orange-yellow ; the tip of the beak black ; the eyes 
deep brown. 
The young of the year has the entire upper part of the 
head, ochrous-yeliow, finely spotted with black, thicker 
about the nape and back part of the neck, so as almost 
entirely to cover those parts with black ; before and behind 
the eyes is a blackish mark ; the under parts are as in the 
adult; the upper plumage is pale bluish-ash, intermixed with 
ochrous-yeliow, and barred with dusky-black; the quill- 
feathers generally darker than in the adult; the tail is white ; 
the feathers tipped with yellow, and marked with dusky- 
black ; the beak, legs and feet are flesh-red. 
Idle egg figured 294 is that of the Lesser Tern. 
