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LESSER TERN. 
considerable portion of tbat part of the inner web 
nearest to the wliite shaft, the other part of the 
inner web white ; the outer webs of the other pri- 
mary and secondary feathers lighter grey than the 
inner webs; chin and throat greyish white; neck 
and breast slate-grey, and as dark as the back; 
abdomen, thighs and flanks, lead-grey ; under wing 
and tail-coverts white ; legs, toes and membranes 
red, the membranes deeply indented.” Length to 
the centre of the fork of the tail, ten inches and a 
half ; to the tip of the longest outside feather, eleven 
and a half. 
THE LESSER TERN. 
Sterna mimita. 
PLATE XXII. 
Sterna minuta, Linn .' — La petite Hirondelle-de-mer, Te:nm . — 
The Lesser Tern, or Sea Swallow, of British authors. 
This beautiful and graceful little bird is in suit- 
able localities pretty generally distributed around 
England and the south of Scotland, stretching 
round in the latter as far as Aberdeen* on the east 
* Professor Macgillivray. 
