ROSEATE TERN. 
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and tail-feathers; a distinct white collar round the hind-ncck ; 
the crown of the head and nape blackish streaked with white, 
the forehead whiter and streaked with black ; lores and sides 
of hinder crown blackish ; marginal lesser wing-coverts black, 
oiining a bar; “bill black; feet grey; iris black” [Dr. 
[^oppin^srer). 
Young in First Winter Plumage.— Grey above like the adult in 
winter plumage, but distinguished by the dark band along the 
foreh''^d coverts ; the head and nape black, the 
Cbaracters.— I'he Roseate Tern may be recognised from the 
two preceding species by its long and slender bill Sch is 
D> tne inner webs of the primaries being white to the tips. ^ 
smarcoforher* The present species formerly bred in 
S Se f m ‘h" “"Sts of the British 
Walnev Ishnds ^ coast Foulney and 
some of the trir’'? "^11 as 
however IipIIm Tl^'try Seebohm, 
the British Isl-i^ i i^*’ was practically extinct in 
adopted at tlie K protective measures now 
its nesting in some of 1 *'’ 
Mr. J. T 'Proud° i^°llowing interesting note from 
I know of a nkfliu'if ^“ckland I am glad to say th.it 
the Common and Arctic Roseate Terns breeding with 
(1896) spent considprnii 'n Wales, I have this year 
identification of the ew-^ r ”’"''^'"8 sure of the correct 
watching the birds nn iu ^ by marking the nests and 
two m number) were quite^Tfr.’' more i/ian 
and Common Ss^ nn^l h ^‘‘'^tic 
difference, there was ’no once made sure of the 
Mr. R. 1. U mistaking them.”* 
bred on islands off thn^* r’ Roland, the species formerly 
* Mr ] r ^ iR‘P'i‘h "'M Wexford, 
over to Mr.*'s^j„S'J'»n!l\®'"‘u-r.'i'‘; '^86^ md the bird, which I h.'tnd.-d 
Club on the 20th of January ^1897’ meeting of the B.O. 
