A VOYAGE TO 
Caspian Tern. 
Birds, Order IX. Webfooted, 
Genus LXXXVIII. Species I. 
Variety B. 
The plate of this bird is inferted at pag, 77. Mr. 
Latham's defer iptioii is as follows. 
" Length nineteen or twenty inches : Bill three 
inches, ftout and of a pale yellow : noftrils pervious : 
the crown of the head black; the feathers longifh, 
and forming a kind of penfile creft at the nape ; the reft 
of the head, neck, and under parts of the body, white : 
back and wings pale cinereous grey : quills grey, w4th 
the ends dufky ; the inner webs, half w^ay from the bafe, 
white : tail grey, forked ; the end half of the other 
feathers white ; the lad is exceeded by the firfi: an inch : 
legs black. Suppofed to inhabit China ; feen alfo, or 
very fimilar, from the Friendly Ifles ; alio found at 
Hapaee, one of the Sandwich Illands," 
Syn. Vol. vi. p. 351. 
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CHAP. 
XV. 
Norfolk 
