Pie A Be) es 
Sterna Cantiaca. Gmel. Sy/i. 1. p. 6c6. 
Sandwich Tern. Lath. Syn. 6. p- 356. 9.—Buay’s Sandwich. 
Young Jird, or variety f. 
Sicrna Nivea, Cauda emarginato, corpore variegato, macula aurium 
nigra. Linn. 
Rallus lariformis. Sesp. Ann. 1. No. 156. 
La Guifette. Buff. Oif. 8. p. 339.—PI. enl. 924. 
‘This is certainly the new fpecies of Tern, which has been found 
on the Sandwich coaft, and defcribed under the name Sandvicenfis * 
by Mr. Latham: Our fpecimen does not precifely agree with the de- 
fcription given by that author; but the following confiderations 
feem to juftify cur conclufion. 
The plumage of many Birds differ confiderably in colours and 
markings in the various flages of their growth; and even in the 
adult ftate, we frequently obferve varieties which it is difficult to 
refer to their true fpecies.=- From the general appearance of the Bird 
before us, it has been thought the young of the common Tern, and it 
ftands for fuch in the Leverian Mufeum: It cannot however be the 
young Bird of that fpecies ; in the contour it is obvioufly different, 
nd the form of the beak, with other {triking peculiarities, muft 
certainly remove it from that fpecies. 
* Catalogue of Britifh Birds, Vide Supplernent of Synopfis. Altered to Sterna 
Boyfii in Index Orite 
Mr. 
