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hung the nape and hinder part of the neck ; the 
feathers of the fore part of the neck and bread, 
when ruffled up, appeared delicately and faintly 
bluffled with red. In other refpecls they corre- 
fponded fo nearly with Mr Latham’s accurate de- 
fcription, that to attempt giving any other is need- 
lefs.— Length eighteen inches : bill two inches ; 
colour black with the tip horn colour : tongue half 
the length of the bill : hides hazel : forehead, 
crown, hind head, and fides above the eyes, black : 
the reft of the head, neck, under parts of the body 
and tail, white; the back and wings pale hoary 
lead colour : the firft five quills hoary black, the 
inner webs deeply margined with white ; the fixth 
like the others, but much paler ; the reft of the 
quills like the back : the tail is forked, the outer 
feather fix inches and a quarter in length ; the 
wings reach beyond it : legs and claws black : the 
under part of the feet dulky red.” “ Some fpeci- 
mens have the top of the head dotted with white.” 
“ In young birds the upper parts are much clouded 
with brown ; and the whole of the top of the head 
greatly mixed with white : but this is not peculiar, 
as the young of other Terns with black heads are in 
the fame ftate.” It is pretty common on the Suf- 
folk and Kentifli coafts in the fummer months, 
breeds there in the month of June, is fuppofed to 
lay its eggs upon the rocks, and to hatch them 
^bout the middle of July.” He adds, “ Whether 
