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received specimens from Southern Africa, as men- 
tioned below ; and Senegal is also given as a locality. 
It occurs sparingly fn Continental India. * 
A specimen of this very fine species, received 
many years since, by the attention of Dr. Smith, 
from the Cape of Good Hope, has the strong bill 
vermilion-red, the tip of the maxilla brownish 
black ; the forehead and crown ending in a rounded 
point on the nape, white, but having the feathers 
very broadly marked with black along the shafts, 
so that to appearance there is a greater proportion 
of the latter colour ; around the lower part of the 
eye and the auriculars dull black ; mantle and wings 
pale grey, the four first quills dark greyish black, with 
strong white shafts ; tail grey, not showing a great 
fork, and having a dull shading band at a short 
distance from its extremity ; back of the neck and 
all the under parts pure white ; feet and legs blacky 
tibiae naked for nearly an inch above the tarsal joint. 
The Sandwich Tern, Sterna cantiaca. — Ster- 
na cantiaca and Boi/sii, Mont., Penn. — Hironddle 
de mer Caugek , Temm. — Sandwich Tern of British 
authors. — In the seas bordering the Continent, the 
Sandwich Tern is frequent, stretching to Italy. 
Dr. Smith is said to have brought specimens from 
South Africa, and we have skins apparently very 
near to it from India. Mr. Audubon writes that it 
is seen from Texas to the Floridas, where it breeds. 
Thus, if all these authorities are correct, the range 
* Jerdon, Blyth. 
