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BRITISH BIRDS, 
SANDWICH TERN. 
( Sandvicencis, Latham. ) 
A PAIR of thefe birds, male and female, were 
fhot on the Fern Iflands, on the coafl: of Northum- 
berland, in July, 1802, from the former of which 
this figure was taken. ^ They meafured two feet 
nine inches from tip to tip of the wings ; the bills 
were tipped with yellow : the black feathers which 
capped and adorned their heads were elongated be- 
hind, forming a kind of peaked creft, which ovcr- 
^ Thefe bh’ds, as well as fpecimens of nearly the whole of 
the different kinds which breed on the Fern Ifles, were, after 
great trouble and rifle, fhot there, exprefsly for the ufe of this 
work, by Major Shore and Lieutenant Henry Forfler Gibfon, 
of the 4th Dragoons : and the author takes this opportunity of 
expreffing the high fenfe of gratitude he feels to thofe gentle- 
men, for the facilities they have given to his labours. 
