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Cafpia, 
BIROS. ANSERES. 42- Sterna. 
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Varied with grey and white, beneath white ; 
quill and tail-feathers blackilh terminated by ''’‘’'j,; 
the fide ones of the latter within for the greateft 1 
white. ..(jij 
Length 15I inches ; bill orange tipt with black ; tnVr 
legs orange, 
Greyilh ; quill and tail-feathers white at the bale i /, 
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fubequal. 
Inhabits Europe, Afia and America ; 2 feet long ; is very 
cious and fterce, elpecially in breeding-time ; feeds o’’ j ;if 
and all the leller water-fowl ; frights the lefl’er birds 
own tribe till they mute or vomit up what they have e 
and then devours it. 
Bill dufky, much hooked, upper mandible covered had 
with a black cere ; body brown, beneath rufty-cinef^.^' 
legs blackilh, rough, warty ; claws hooked, black ; 
toe fhort, with a (harp, hooked claw, 
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Brown ; wing-coverts variegated with white ; tail g. 
fpotted and tipt with white. Efqui>ni‘‘‘‘ 
Inhabits America, as far as IluJjbn’s Bay ; 2a inches ‘“'y' 
Bill and legs black ; toes and membrane half black) 
■w'hite. 
42. STERNA. Bill fubulate, 
pointed, a little comprelFed, 
teeth : nojlrih linear : tongue poii^^^d, 
u'ings very long : tail (moftly) 
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Body above plumbeous-alli, beneath and neck 
fcarlet ; frontlet and legs black. 
Inhabits the Cafpian Sea; 22-| inches long; freq^f'^-el’l'^ 
fhores and banks ; feeds on fmall fifh and fea infeft®) 
over the water and fuddenly darting into it for its pry' tif 
Bill red ; irids dulky ; tail ‘fliort, forked ; 
with black ; kgs reddifh-brown. 
!. Crown black fpotted with white ; tail-feathers with ° 
bars. 
Inhabits- 2 1 inches long, Bi(l red-, bla^yid'' 
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