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JAVAN TERN. 

 (Sterna Javanica.) 



St. glauca, gula malis cervice postice alis cauddque infra albis, 

 capite swprd nigro, remigibus griseo-fuscescentibus interne plagd 

 albida 7iotatis, rostro pedibusque Jiavis. 



Glaucous Tern, with the throat, cheeks, cervix behind, wings, and 

 tail beneath white, the head above black, the quills grey- 

 brownish marked internally with a white dash, the beak and 

 legs yellow. 



Sterna Javanica. Horsfield, Linn. Trans, xiii. 198. 

 Javan Tern. Lath. Gen. Hist, x. 125. 



Length eleven inqhes : prevailing colour glau- 

 cous, throat, cheeks, neck behind, wings and tail be- 

 neath white : head above black : quills brownish-grey, 

 marked within with a whitish patch : beak and legs 

 yellow. Inhabits Java. 



BLACK-NAPED TERN. 

 (Sterna media.) 



St. fronte cervice postice et partibus inferioribus albis, pileo albo 

 nigroque vario, nucha atrd, alis dorso uropygioque glaucis, 

 remigibus supra fuscis cano pulverulentis, subtus dimidio ex- 

 teriore intense glaucis interiore albis. 



Tern with the forehead, neck behind, and under parts of the body 

 white, the pileus varied with white and black, the nape dark, 

 the wings, back, and rump glaucous, the quills above brown 

 sprinkled with hoary, beneath with the outer half intense 

 glaucous, the interior white. 



