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SOOTY TERN. 
white ; rest of the plumage black ; wings very long and pointed, 
extending, when shut, nearly to the extremity 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 to- 
wards the extremities a little blackish on the inner vanes ; legs and 
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. 
END OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME. 
