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ORD. III. GEN. II. TERN. 



SPE. IV. BLACK TERN. 

 PL 207. 



Sterna fiflipes. Lin. Syft. I. p. 228. 

 L'Hirondelle de mer noire, ou l'Epouvantail. 



Brif. Orn. VI. p. ail. 



This tern is of a middle fize between the two preceding fpecies. Its 

 length is ten inches ; breadth, twenty-four ; weight, near three ounces. The 

 bill, head, neck, and body, are black : wings, and tail, dark afh- colour : vent, 

 and rump, white : tail not fo deeply forked as in the others of this genus : legs, 

 and feet, dufky orange : webs black, that between the inner and middle toes 

 extending only to the firft joint of the middle toe, the other indented in form 

 of a femicircle. The male has a white fpot under the chin. 



It frequents the creeks near the fea, and likewife frefh-water ftreams, re- 

 maining with us all the year. In the fpring and fummer great numbers are 

 feen in the fens of Lincolnfhire. It lays its eggs, three in number, on the 

 banks of frefh-water rivers: for a reprefentation of them fee PL XLIV. 



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