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26— SUMATRAN TERN. 



Sterna Sumatrana, Lin. Trans, xii. 329. 



THIS is a small Species. Plumage mostly white, tinged on the 

 back, head, and wing coverts, with light reddish brown, and mixed 

 with a few dark spots ; a blackish crescent extends from eye to eye, 

 round the back of the head ; wing coverts lead grey, the first nearly 

 black; under parts snowy white ; tail like the back, rather short; 

 that and the wings equal in length. — Inhabits Sumatra. 



27.— GREY TERN. 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Bill black, length from the gape one 

 inch and a half; nostrils pervious; eyelids and round the eye dusky; 

 top of the head, sides, and nape, nearly white, dashed with small 

 dusky specks, longer and more conspicuous at the nape; neck 

 behind, back, and wing coverts, very pale, or cinereous white ; 

 beneath from chin to vent pure white ; tail forked, long, the interior 

 feathers shorter by one inch; above it is like the back, beneath white; 

 quills pale silvery grey, with white shafts; the second quills like the 

 back, with a dusky white spot on each of them, near the tip; and 

 they exceed the tail in length by two inches ; legs slender, and black. 



Inhabits Georgia, received from Mr. Abbot, it is known there by 

 the name of Grey Gull. 



28— PANAYAN TERN. 



Sterna Panaya, Ind. Ofn. ii 808. Got. Lin. i. 607. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 329. 

 L'Hirondelle de Mer de Panay, Son. Voy. 12fr. pi. S4. Buf. viii. 344. 

 Panayan Tern, Gen. Syn. vii. 363. 



SIZE of the Common Species. Bill and legs black ; top of the 

 head spotted with black ; hind part of the neck greyish black ; wings 



