. The water birds of North America . innesota, Illinois, Cobbs Island, and from Shoal Lake in British America. Theground-color is a pale buffy drab, varying to a pale grayish green. The markingsare of blackish brown, mingling with fainter markings of lilac-gray. They vary inlength from to inches, and in breadth from to inches. Sterna hirundo. THE COMMON TEEN. Sterna hirundo,1 Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 137 ; ed. 12, I. 1766, 227. — Wns. Am. Orn. VII. 1813, 76, pi. 60, fig. 1. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 271. — Aim. Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 74, pi. 309 ; Synop. 1839, 318 ; B. Am. V
. The water birds of North America . innesota, Illinois, Cobbs Island, and from Shoal Lake in British America. Theground-color is a pale buffy drab, varying to a pale grayish green. The markingsare of blackish brown, mingling with fainter markings of lilac-gray. They vary inlength from to inches, and in breadth from to inches. Sterna hirundo. THE COMMON TEEN. Sterna hirundo,1 Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 137 ; ed. 12, I. 1766, 227. — Wns. Am. Orn. VII. 1813, 76, pi. 60, fig. 1. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 271. — Aim. Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 74, pi. 309 ; Synop. 1839, 318 ; B. Am. VII. 1844, 97, pi. 433. — CoUES, Key, 1S72, 320 ; Check List, 1873, no. 565 j 2d ed. 18S2, no. 797 ; B. N. W. 1874, fiuviatilis, Isis, 1819, p. 1847-48. — Sharpe & Dresser, B. Eur. Pt. XI. (1872). Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, scnegalensis, Swains. B. W. Afr. II. 1S37, Wilsoni, Bonap. Comp. List, 1838, 61. — Lawr. in Bairds B. N. Am. 1858, 861. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. Hab. Palsearctic Region and Eastern North America, chiefly near the coast. Winters northto about 37° ; breeds irregularly nearly throughout its range. Arizona (Henshaw) ; Bermudas(summer resident). Sp. Char. Adult, in summer : Pileum and nape, including upper half of the lores, uniformdeep black. Upper parts deep pearl-gray (much the same shade as in paradisa-a), the border of the 1 We cannot at all share in Mr. Saunderss doubts (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Lon-don for 1S76, pp. 650, 651) as to the general, or even exclusive, pertinence of Linnaeuss descriptions ofhis Sterna hirundo to the present species. 296 LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS — LONGIPENNES. wing, tips of secondaries, lower part of rump, upper tail-coverts, and greater portion of the tailpure white. Lower parts pale pearl-gray or grayish white (much lighter than the upper parts),becoming gradually white on the under part and sides of the head, and pure white on the web
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