Peg. Bo VE 
STERNA MINUTA. 
i 2-S Sok Ry Tok RN. 
ANSERES. 
Bill obtufe covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous below 
the bafe, {welled at the apex. ‘Tongue flefhy. Legs naked. Feet 
webbed or finned. — 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill ftrait, flender, pointed. Noftrils narrow, on the bafe of the 
bill. Tail forked. Feet webbed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Tail forked, body white, back grey. Head. black, front white, 
the white continued in a band over each eye. 
STeRNA MinuTa: cauda forficata, corpore albo, dorfo cano, fronte 
fuperciliifque albis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p.809.19. 
Larus Pifcator. Gefn. av. 587. fig. 588. | 
Lesser Tern. Penn. Br. Zool. No. 155. pl. go. 
Arét. Zool. No. 449. | 
Lath. Gen. Syn. v. 6. p. 364. 18. 
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