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than the Common Tern, though more like it than the note of any 

 other: are said to lay among the rocks in June, and to hatch the 

 eggs before the middle of July, as I have received birds, supposed to 

 be the young of this species, from Mr. Boys, the end of August. 

 About the same time a young specimen, with very nearly the same 

 markings, was killed by Dr. Leith, on the banks of the Thames, 

 near Greenwich. Mr. Pennant mentions one having been shot near 

 Shrewsbury; and we have been informed, that it is not uncommon 

 on the Coast of Suffolk* in summer, and there associates with the 

 Common Tern. Mr. Bewick says, it frequents the Coast of Nor- 

 thumberland, a pair having been shot on the Fern Islands. An egg 

 sent to me by Mr. Lewin, was larger than that of the Common Tern, 

 olive brown, with purplish blotches. A bird very similar, with the 

 bill and legs dusky red, is found at Sumatra, and called Samarlaut. 



A. — Sterna nubilosa, Mm. Carls, tab. 63. Lid. Orn. ii. 806. 



Bill black, slender, elongated ; forehead, and all beneath, from 

 chin to vent, white ; the crown and hindhead varied with black and 

 whitish ; nape partly black, partly pale brown ; the back, and wing 

 coverts dusky ; prime quills black, beneath brown ; the shafts black 

 above, and white beneath ; the outer one sooty brown, inner margin 

 whitish, but the shaft white above and beneath ; tail forked, dusky, 

 beneath brown; the four middle feathers equal in length; legs black. 



Inhabits Finland : this has every appearance of a young bird, 

 probably may be the Sandwich Tern ; but no size is mentioned, or 

 any further guide, to enable us to judge more about it. 



B. — Die Stubbersche Meer&chwalbe, Beckst. Dmts. ii. 828. 



Smaller than the Caspian Tern. Top of the head black ; fore- 

 head and a streak over the eye white ; back and wing coverts ash 

 grey ; under parts of the body white. 



* Rev. Dr. Wilgress. 

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