120 TERN. 



the colour of umber, greyish beneath ; fore part of the neck, breast, 

 and belly, white ; tail as the wings. 



Inhabits the Isle of Panay ; and much resembles the Common 

 Tern, except in the darkness of the upper parts of the plumage. 



A. In the Island of Sumatra is one nearly alike, blackish 



brown above, white beneath ; a white stripe from the base of the 

 bill to the eyes; crown black, mixed with white ; hindhead, back of 

 the neck, and wings, black; tail the colour of the body; wings 

 about the same length as the tail ; bill and legs dusky red. 



29— MINUTE TERN. 



Sterna minuta, Ind. Orn. ii. 809. Lin.\. 228. Gm. Lin. \. 608. 4. Boroiusk. iii. p. 



55. Tern. Man. 4S7. Id. Ed. 2d. 753. 

 Sterna metopoleueos, Jnd. Orn. ii. 809. Cm. Lin. i. 608. N. C. Petr. xv. 475. t. 22. 



Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 198. 

 Sterna minor, Bris. vi. 206. t. 19. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 416. Klein, 138. 11. Gerin. y. 



t. 541. 

 Sterna argentea, Maxim. Tr. i. p. 67. 

 Sterna bieolor, Seop.\. No. 110. 



Larus Piscator, Aldr. Raii, 131. A. 2. Will. 269. §. II. t. 68. 

 Die kleine Meerschwalbe, Bechst. Deuts. ii. S37. Naturf. xii. 144. 

 La petite Hirondelle de Mer, Buf. viii. 337. PI. enl. 996. 

 Lesser Sea Swallow, Will. Engl. 353. pi. 68. 

 Hooded Tern, Gen. Syn. vi. 365. 

 Lesser Tern, Gen. Syn. vi. 364. Br. Zool. ii. 255. pi. 90. ld.fol. 144. pi. L. 2. 



Id. 1812. ii. 198. pi. 35. Flor. Scot. i. 196. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 449. Bewick, ii. 



pi. p. 241. Lewin, vi. pi. 205. Id. xxxix. f. 2. Wale. i. pi. 121-. Donov. pi. 96. 



Pult. Dors. p. 18. Orn. Diet, fy Supp. Amer. Orn. vii. 80. pi. 60. f. 2. 



LENGTH eight inches and half, breadth nineteen and a half; 

 weight about two ounces. Bill yellow, tipped with black; irides 

 dusky ; forehead to the crown white ; the rest of the head and nape 

 black ; through the eye, from the bill, a streak of the same; except 

 this, the side of the head, the neck, all beneath, and tail, are pure 



