SOOTY TERI^. 
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fully-grown young in its first plumage is 
^ trifle ml > below, the under surface being, perhaps, 
the bnrt lower abdomen white; the feathers of 
a bar'nf L ' secondaries, and tail-feathers tipped with 
bar of sandy-rufous, which soon bleaches to white, 
the !? the preceding species, the dark colour of 
tnan 6. anmstheta. will, a longer wing- - 
‘-J O ^ 
, . It is a larger bird 
tin-uishcTI ^ "'‘"Si ‘'lid It is further dis- 
middle and V^*' having the web between the 
S. ancBsthefa fil'> ^ud far less excised than in 
spSf occurrences of the present 
Saunders savs that mnft / 1*^° dispute, as Mr. 
Terns have brn^e^f examples identified as Sooty 
procured at Tutbnrv ^ ^ specimen was 
another Burton -on-Trent, in October, 1852 ; 
i 860 - an?^noSr ^ V.'" 21st of June 
09 , and another near Bath on the 4th of October, 1S85. 
sea^s“Siervf Inlands—- Trojiical and juxta-tropical 
wanderinertn ^cefs exist; occasionally 
unknown'on tl. America and to Europe. Almost 
wiseverv^en^ Pacific; other- 
e ''C'-y generally distributed ” (// Sauud.rs). 
certain isolated quantities of this I'ern which frequent 
as the volcaMc f of sea-birds, such, for instance, 
about, and a desci-iiwlr.,? c often been written 
blagc of Terns is called 01 °n ‘^c-awake Fair,” as the assem- 
'published. Two hundred d ™ore than once been 
on Ascension in a sino-i^ Bavc been collected 
of the enormous numbers wliFh' u®' <- ^'Brcgillivray, too, speaks 
-Islet in Torres Straits K ^°iid breeding on Raine’s 
June, 1844, about i,roo 
party on the island. A hr,,, t o "’cc procured by the 
of the young birds flntr-i, June nearly one-half 
ously) were able to flv d ^"^enty-five or thirty days previ- 
wing. Great numbers of quite strong on the 
for the pot; in 
15 
one 
5'oung birds unable to fly were killed 
mess of twenty-two men the average 
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