104 TERN. 



brownish, or bluish lead-colour ; quills dusky ; forehead, jaws, chin, 

 and throat, white ; from thence to the vent fine chocolate brown ; 

 thighs the same, but the lower half to near the joint is white; 

 rump dusky; upper tail coverts chocolate, and end in a point, 

 reaching to three-fourths of the length of the tail, which is white, 

 and forked ; the quills somewhat exceed it in length; legs red. 



Inhabits India, called in the Province of Oude, Bugheeah. 

 From the drawings of Lord Mountnorris, and General Hardwicke. 

 Said to be found at Cawnpore, in May and June. In one drawing 

 the under parts are dusky black, not chocolate brown ; the black on 

 the crown spotted with white ; and the quills exceed the length of 

 the tail by more than one inch. 



The female has the crown purplish brown, with a darker mixture, 

 and the markings in general are much the same; but the belly is not 

 black, and the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, are pale 

 ash-colour. 



7. -NODDY TERN. 



Sterna stolida, Ind. Orn. ii. 805. Lin. i. 227. Amwn. ac. iv. 420. Gm. Lin. i. 605. 



Burowsk. iii. 51. t. 42. Bartr. Tr. 293. Spalowsk. iii. t. 25. 

 Passer stultus, Raii, 154. Will. 297. Id. Engl. 385. 



Gaviafusca, Bris. vi. 199. 15. t. 18. f. 2. Id, Svo. ii. 414. Klein, 139. 15. 

 Le Fou, Hist, de la Louis, ii. 119. 

 La Mouette brune, PI. enl. 997. 

 Noddy, Gen. Syn. vi. 354. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 446. Buf. viii. 461. pi. 37. Sloan. 



Jam. i. p. 31. pi. 6. f. 2. Brown, Jam. 481. Cat. Car. i. pi. 88. Damp. iii. 



pt. 1. pi. p. 123. f. 6. 



LENGTH fifteen inches ; weight four ounces. Bill two inches, 

 slender, and black; the whole plumage sooty brown, except the top 

 of the head, which is white, changing at the hind part to ash-colour; 

 quills and tail darker than the rest; legs black. 



This bird is seen very frequently at sea; but chiefly within the 

 Tropics, and frequently flies on board the ships, so as to be easily 

 taken ; but, though seemingly thus stupid, will often bite severely 



