. A history of British birds . helongest quill-feather twelve inches. In winter the foreheadand crown are white, spotted and streaked with black. A young bird of the year killed on the 10th of Augustis about ten inches in length ; the upper mandible darkbrown, the under one pale brown at the base; foreheadgreyish-white, top of the head and the occiput black; backand smaller wing-coverts ash-grey, varied with pale brown;greater coverts ash-grey, quill-feathers bluish-grey, the innermargins white, the outside quill-feather almost black, exceptthe shaft, which is white; tail-feathers varied with
. A history of British birds . helongest quill-feather twelve inches. In winter the foreheadand crown are white, spotted and streaked with black. A young bird of the year killed on the 10th of Augustis about ten inches in length ; the upper mandible darkbrown, the under one pale brown at the base; foreheadgreyish-white, top of the head and the occiput black; backand smaller wing-coverts ash-grey, varied with pale brown;greater coverts ash-grey, quill-feathers bluish-grey, the innermargins white, the outside quill-feather almost black, exceptthe shaft, which is white; tail-feathers varied with ash-greyand brown ; legs, toes, and membranes dark brown. The young bird figured in the illustration has the headmottled Avith black and white; the back, wing-coverts andtail-feathers varied with angular lines of black. A nestling about three days old, taken on Norderney, hasthe upper parts finely mottled with buffy-grey; under partswhite; bill yellowish; legs and feet greyish-brown ; webspaler. 544 GA LARID/E. Sterna dougalli, Montagu.* THE ROSEATE TERN. Sterna Dougallii. The Roseate Teen was first discovered on two small rockyislands, called the Cumbraes, in the Firth of Clyde, in 1812,by Dr. McDougall, of Glasgow, who sent a specimen andparticulars to Colonel IMontagu, from which a figure anddescription were inserted in the Supplement to his Ornitho-logical Dictionary. Some years ago Selby found a numerouscolony breeding on the Fame Islands, but that locality hadbeen nearly abandoned for a long time, until in 1880 severalpairs returned to their old haunts in the month of May, when * Sterna DougaUU, Montagu, Supp. Orn. Diet. (1813). This species has notunfrequently been designated <S. pamdisea, Briinnich, but any one who will takethe trouble of referring to that authors description, will at once see that he wasentirely unacquainted with the Roseate, and alluded to the Arctic Tern. ROSEATE TERN. 545 some, if not all, were shot, in defiance of the law, by on
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