114 TERN. 



20— COMMON TERM. 



Sterna Hirundo, Ind. O™. ii. 807. Lin. i. 227. Fn. suec. No. 158. Gm. Lin. i. 606. 



Hasselq. It. 272. Scop. i. No. 111. Bruw. No. 151, 152. Muller, p. 21. Fn. 



groenl. No. 69. .Fn. drag-, p. 76. Krani. 345. Frisch, t. 219. Borowsk. iii. 52. 



Fb. Helv. Sepp, t. 105. — male and female. Zin. Trans, xii. p. 542. 2?w. vi. 



203. 1. t. 19. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 415. 

 Sterna Hirundo, Hirondelle de Mer, Pierre Garin, Tern. Man. 481. Id. Ed. 2d. 740. 

 Hirundo marina, Rail, 131. A. 1. Will. 268. t. 68. 



Larus albicans, Klein, 138.10. Id. Stem. 32. t. 36. f. 3. a — c. Mart. Dan. \. t. 42. 

 Die gtmeine Meerschwalbe, Beschst. Deuts. ii. 828. Naturf. xii. 143. Schmid, 139. 



t. 122. 

 La grande Hirondelle de Mer, Buf. viii. 331. pi. 27. PI. ml. 987. 

 Le Hatis a tete noire, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 413. 

 Sea Swallow, Will. Engl. 352. pi. 68. 

 Silver Bird, Staunt. Chin. i. 224. 

 Greater Tern,* Gen. Syn. vi. 361. Br. Zool. ii. No. 254. pi. 90. Id.fol. 144. pi. L.* 



Id. 1812. ii. 196. pi. 35. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 199. Lewin, vi. pi. 204. Id. xxxix.— the 



egg. Walcot, i. pi. 119. Donov. i. pi. 23. Fwfr. Dors. p. 18. Or«. Z)icf. A - 



Supp. Amer. Orn. vii. 76. pi. 60. f. 1. 



LENGTH fourteen inches, breadth thirty ; weight four ounces 

 and a quarter. Bill slender, crimson, two inches and a half long, 

 and pointed at the end, which is black ; top of the head, taking in 

 the eyes and nape, black, tapering to a point at the back part of the 

 neck ; between the nostrils and eye, sides under it, the neck, and all 

 the under parts, pure white ; back and wings pale ash-colour ; quills 

 grey ; two or three of the outer ones dark, shafts white ; tail greatly 

 forked, white, except the outer web of the exterior feather, which is 

 black ; legs crimson ; claws black. 



The Greater Tern frequents our sea coasts, and banks of lakes 

 and rivers, throughout the summer, but more common near the sea; 

 found also in various other parts of Europe and Asia ; seen about 

 the Caspian Sea, in April ; in summer met with as far north as 



* It is known by various other names, as Kirmew, Picket, Tarney, Pitcarne ; Tarrock, 

 Rittock, Spurre, and Scraye. — Orn. Diet. 



