108 TERN. 



M. Bechstein, who describes this says, it inhabits the Island 

 Stubber, and breeds there, laying three white eggs in the sand, with 

 brown and black spots, of the size of a pea. 



10— AFRICAN TERN. 



Sterna Africana, Ind. Orn. ii. 805. Gm. Lin. i. 605. Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. p. 737. 

 African Tern, Gen. Syn. vi. 354. 



SIZE of the Sandwich Tern ; length sixteen inches. Bill black; 

 plumage in general white; top of the head mottled with black; 

 wings pale bluish white, inclining to lead-colour, and spotted with 

 brown ; quills pale bluegre} r , margined with white, except the ends 

 of the outer ones ; the wings exceed the tail in length, the latter 

 forked, the end dusky, mottled with black; legs black. 



Inhabits Africa. — Described from a specimen in the British 

 Museum ; it seems to have many markings in common with the 

 Sandwich Species : is probably a young bird. 



11. -WHITE-BROWED TERN. 



Le Hatis a Sourcil blanc, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 415. 



LLNGTH eight inches. Over the eye a broad band of white, 

 and a second of black and white beneath, surrounding the eye; 

 sides of the head, and all the under parts, white ; top of the head 

 marbled black and white ; hindhead black ; body above, and wings 

 blue grey, but the outer quills are blackish. — Met with in Paraguay, 

 the latter end of April. 



Another is mentioned, varying somewhat in plumage, under the 

 name of Hatis tachete, and supposed to be a young bird. 



