Cuass II. SANDWICH TERN. 
lead color; the first five quils hoary black, 
the inner webs deeply margined with white; 
the sixth like the others, but much paler; the 
rest of the quils like the back; the tail is fork- 
ed; the outer feather six inches and a quarter 
in length; the wings reach rather beyond it; 
the legs and claws, the under part of the feet, 
dusky red. ; 
These birds frequent the neighborhood of 
Sandwich in great numbers, and are not uncom- 
mon on the eastern coast of the kingdom. Ep. 
Sterna Boysii. £. St. cauda La Guisette. Brisson av. vi. 
emarginata corpore variega- 216. cab. 20. f. 2. Hist. dois. 
to, macula aurium nigra. vill. 339. Pl. Enl. 924. 
Lath. Ind. orn. 806. id. KamschatkanTern.Arct. Zool. 
Syn. vi. 358.? i. 240. 
Sterna nevia. Gm. Lin. 609.? 
THE bill black; the forehead and space on 
each side of the bill white; the crown of the 
head. black, which color is continued below, 
and on each side ends in a point behind and be- 
fore; the cheeks, neck, beginning of the back, 
and the whole under side, white ; the upper part 
of the back cinereous brown; the rest of the 
plumage, the wings, and the tail, grey, dark 
almost to duskiness on the ridge of the wings ; 
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