NEW HOLLAND TERN. 



161 



Sterna Nilotica.- Gjnel. Sijst. Nat. 1. 606. Lath. Ind. Orn.2. 

 806. 



Egyptian Tern. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 976. Lath.. Gen. Hist. x. 

 110. 



Described as being of the size of a Pigeon : its 

 beak is black : the head and upper part of the neck 

 cinereous, sprinkled with small blackish spots : orbits 

 black, dotted with white : the back, wings, and tail 

 cinereous : the outer quills deep cinereous : all the 

 under-parts of the plumage white : the legs red : 

 claws black. Inhabits Egypt : appearing in flocks 

 on the mud of the Nile, during the month of Ja- 

 nuary : it feeds on insects, small fish, &c. 



NEW HOLLAND TERN. 



(Sterna Novae Hollandiae.) 



ST.Jusca, suhtus Jronteque alba, dorso variegato. 

 " Brown Tern with the under parts and forehead white, the back 

 variegated. 



New Holland Tern. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 103. 



" Length fourteen or fifteen inches: beak one 

 inch and a half ; black, curved at the tip : irides 

 blue : tongue longish and pointed : top of the head 

 and behind the neck brown : back the same, but 

 darker and mottled : forehead and all beneath white : 

 quills brown ; reaching much beyond the tail : legs 



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