. The water birds of North America . ry rare straggler; andSavi and Malherbe give it as a bird of Italy. Mr. Drummond met with it in NorthernAfrica, near Tunis. It is said to be common in spring in Dalmatia. Its habits donot appear to differ essentially from those of its near relative. If nigra. Its occurrence in the Transvaal, in Africa, renders it probable that this speciesmay be more or less generally distributed over the whole of that continent. Mr. T. 324 LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS — LONGIPENNES. Ayres mentions seeing several of these birds hawking for insects over a swamp someeight miles from
. The water birds of North America . ry rare straggler; andSavi and Malherbe give it as a bird of Italy. Mr. Drummond met with it in NorthernAfrica, near Tunis. It is said to be common in spring in Dalmatia. Its habits donot appear to differ essentially from those of its near relative. If nigra. Its occurrence in the Transvaal, in Africa, renders it probable that this speciesmay be more or less generally distributed over the whole of that continent. Mr. T. 324 LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS — LONGIPENNES. Ayres mentions seeing several of these birds hawking for insects over a swamp someeight miles from Potchefstroom. He speaks of their flight as being slow, uncertain,and wavy. Their stomachs were found to contain insects. Genus ANOUS, Leach. Anous, Leach, Stephens Gen. Zool. XIII. 1826, 139 (type, Sterna stolida, Linn.). Char. Size rather small ; tail graduated or wedge-shaped ; webs of the toes completely fillingthe interdigital spaces, and not at all scalloped out anteriorly. Color uniform dusky, becominghoary on the The genus Anous embraces but one North American species — the A. stolidus, Linn. In otherportions of the world, more especially in the several regions of the South Pacific Ocean, severalother more or less nearly related species occur, only one of which (.1. melanogenys) reaches theAmerican coast. Their characters are as follows : — A. Lores dusky, in abrupt and marked contrast with the hoary of the Forehead only distinctly whitish. 1. A. stolidus. Plumage sooty brown, gradually lightening into hoary gray on the nape and Entire pileum distinctly whitish. 2. A. White of the pileum changing gradually into ash) on the nape ; glumage of the body sooty brown. 3. A. White of the pileum abruptly defined posteriorly against the sooty brown of the nape ; plumage of the body sooty blackI. Lores hoary whitish, like the forehead. 4. A. Hoary ash of occiput and nape changing gradually into so
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