38 allen’s naturalist’s library. 
Anous siolidus, B. 0 . U. I.ist, Brit. B. p. i86 (18S3) ; Saunders, 
ed. Yarrell’s Brit. B. iii. p. 567 (1884); id. Man. Brit. B. 
p. 639 (1889) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxLx. (1894) ; 
Saunders, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 136 (1896). 
Adult Male In Breeding Plumage. — General colour above dark 
chocolate-brown, rather darker on the rump and upper tail- 
coverts ; wing-coverts like the back ; primary-coverts and quills 
blackish, the inner secondaries chocolate-brown like the back; 
tail-feathers blackish ; forehead white, extending in a narrow 
line above the eye ; rest of the crown pearly-grey, slightly 
darker on the nape and hind neck ; lores and feathers round 
the eye leaden-black ; eyelid white ; remainder of sides of face 
and under surface of body chocolate-brown, with a shade of 
grey perceptible on the sides of the face and throat, as well as 
on the under wing-coverts ; “ bill blackish ; tarsi and feet 
reddish-brown, fully webbed, the webs ochraceous” {H. 
Saunders). Total length, i4'5 inches; culmen, I'a; wing, 
ii'i; tail, 5'6; tarsus, i’05. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male, but slightly smaller, with 
a weaker bill, and, as a rule, somewhat browner on the 
shoulders and wiih less lead-colour on the throat. Total 
length, i4'5 inches; wing, io'5. 
Young. — Browner than the adults and rather paler ; forehead 
and crown greyish-brown, ivith a narrow white superciliary line, 
conspicuous by contrast against the blackish lores. A fledge- 
ling from Ascension Island is umber-brown above and below, 
with the whitish streak above the lores very marked and 
continuous round the base of the bill, and with a slight greyish 
tint on the forehead. A downy nestling about five days old, 
from British Honduras, has the forehead and crown dull white, 
the lores blackish ; the upper surface mouse-brown ; the nape 
and the throat darkest, with the lower parts paler; another, 
only just hatched is nearly uniform sooty-brown (Satmders). 
Range in Great Britain. — The only examples of the Noddy 
recorded from the British Islands, or, for that matter, from any 
part of Europe, are tw'O specimens obtained in Ireland, off the 
coast of Wexford, between the Tuskar Lighthouse and the Bay 
