. Arctic zoology [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. BLACK ANt) KAMTSCHATKAN TEHN. â white i lefs forked tnan that of the preceding. Weight two ounces eight grains: Length eight inches and a half: Extent nineteen and a half. This fpecies is too tender to endure the high nortliern latitudes, nor even beyond the Baltic. Is met with in the fouth of RaJ/ia, and about the Black and Ca/pian feaj and in Sibiria about the Irtifti, In America is feen, during fummer, about New Tork, Br. Zeal. ii. N" aj6.âSterna fiflipcj, Lin. Sy^. mS. Le Guifette noire, ou I'Epouvanuil, Di Buffm, viit. Enl. '333-
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. BLACK ANt) KAMTSCHATKAN TEHN. â white i lefs forked tnan that of the preceding. Weight two ounces eight grains: Length eight inches and a half: Extent nineteen and a half. This fpecies is too tender to endure the high nortliern latitudes, nor even beyond the Baltic. Is met with in the fouth of RaJ/ia, and about the Black and Ca/pian feaj and in Sibiria about the Irtifti, In America is feen, during fummer, about New Tork, Br. Zeal. ii. N" aj6.âSterna fiflipcj, Lin. Sy^. mS. Le Guifette noire, ou I'Epouvanuil, Di Buffm, viit. Enl. '333-*-' Latham, iii. â¢'âLbv. Mus.âBl. Mus. nf With the bill, head, neck, bread, and belly, black; vent white: wings and back of a deep afti-color: tail Ihort^ exterior fea- thers whitei the others cinereous: legs a dirty red: webs deeply hollowed in the middle^ fo as to form a crefcent. This i^ the fpecies which 1 apprehend was fent to the Royal Society from Hudfon's Bay ; and was feen in Vad flocks beyond lac. 4! north, Jong. 47 wefl: from London, by Mr. Kalm *, fomcwhat fouth of the bank of Newfoundland. Is found in Europe, as far as Iceland. Very numerous in Sibiria, and about the fait lakes of the defarts of I'artafy, which they animate by their note and aftivc flight and A, Kamtschatxam. Pallas, MS, LaGuiffette? Di Bufon, viii. 3^g.âPl. Enl. 924. 'TP V/ith the bill and crown black: forehead and fpace over the eyes white. Obferved by Steller about Kamt/chatka, A bird feemingly of this fpecies was fhot on the Severn a few miles below Sbravjhury j and is ⢠Vtjagt, i. 2j. m FlACI. 4S0. 0i,ACK. PlaCI. FtACB. among. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. London : Printed by Henry Hughes
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