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BLACK NODDY. 



tempting to remove from the place : they are usually 

 of very dark and sombre colours ; and are found 

 within the tropics. 



BLACK NODDY. 

 (Anoiis niger.) 



An. corpora nigro, fronie alhicante, superciliis atris, rostra fe- 

 dibusque nigris. 



Noddy with a black body, whitisli forehead, dark-coloured eye- 

 brows, and black legs and beak. 



Sterna stolida. Linn. Sijst. Nat. 1. 227. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 

 605. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 805. 



Sterna Philippina. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. 805 ? 



Passer stultus. Raii Syn. 154. 



Gavia fusca. Briss. Orn. 6. 199. 7;/. 18.y. 2. 



La Mouette brune. Buff. PI. Enl. 997. 



Le Noddi noir, Oiseau fou, &c. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 522. 



Le petit Fouquet des Philippines. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 125. pi. 85. 



Philippine Tern. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. 267. 



Noddy. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 461. pi. 37- Catesb. Carol. 1. 

 pi. 88. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 354. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 104. 



The length of this bird is fifteen inches : its beak 

 is slender and black : its entire plumage is of a sooty 

 brown, the top of the head excepted ; this is white, 

 changing to ash colour towards the occiput : the quills 

 and tail are blackish-brown : the legs are black. 



A common species within the tropical seas : it is 

 said to breed in the rocky ledges of St. Helena, and 

 in the Bermuda Islands, and various parts of Brazil 

 and Cayenne. They fly about in flocks during the 



