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SOOTY TEEN. 
sides of the neck pure white; rest of the plumage black; wings 
very long and pointed, extending, when shut, nearly to the ex- 
tremity of the tail, which is greatly forked, and consists of 
twelve feathers, the two exterior ones four inches longer than 
those of the middle, the whole of a deep black, except the two 
outer feathers, which are white, but towards the extremities a 
little blackish on the inner vanes; legs and webbed feet black, 
hind toe short. 
The secondary wing feathers are eight inches shorter than 
the longest primary. 
This bird frequently settles on the rigging of ships at sea, 
and, in common with another species, S, Stolida, is called by 
sailors the Noddy. 
