TERN. 103 



4.— NEW-HOLLAND TERN. 



LENGTH fourteen or fifteen inches. Bill one inch and a half 

 black, curved at the tip ; irides blue ; tongue longish, and pointed ; 

 top of the head and behind the neck brown; back the same, but 

 darker, and mottled ; forehead and all beneath white; quills brown, 

 reaching much beyond the end of the tail ; legs brown, bare greatly 

 above the knee. — Inhabits New-Holland. Mr. Lambert. 



5— TEHARY TERN. 



SIZE uncertain.* Bill stout and black; irides dusky; head, 

 neck, and under parts, white ; from the middle of the crown to the 

 nape black; back, wings, and tail, pale cinereous blue, the last 

 moderately forked, the wings exceed it by about two inches; legs 

 deep, dull red, the webs between the toes reach about halfway. 



Inhabits India, in some parts called Kohurry, or Gohurry. 



In General Hardwicke's drawings is one, probably differing in 

 sex. The bill black; forehead white, the rest of the crown tinged 

 with blue; with dusky streaks before, and dusky black behind the 

 eye ; communicating with the nape and neck adjoining, which are 

 of the same colour; under parts from the chin white; wings and tail 

 fine pale grey ; the second quills marked with brown at the ends 

 and middle ; back greyish ash-colour, marked with large spots of 

 dusky, pointed at the back part; tail moderately forked ; the quills 

 exceed it by three inches; legs dusky red ; the toes webbed only 

 one-third from the base. 



Inhabits India, known by the name of Peteysee Tehary. 



6 —BROWN-BELLIED TERN. 

 LENGTH nearly twelve inches. Bill two inches, fine orange, 

 near the base red ; crown, even with the eye, black ; back and wings 



* In the Drawing, nine inches. 



