. The sportsman's British bird book . gdom. In addition to being the largest of the indigenous Britishrepresentatives of the group, measuring i6 inches in length, theSandwich tern, when adult, may be recognised by the black feet, theyellow-tipped black beak, and the slight elongation of the feathers onthe nape of the neck. In summer the crown of the head and nape are SANDWICH TERN 177 of the usual black, the rest of the upper-parts, with the exception ofthe lower portion of the back and the tail, which are white, being black,while the white lower surface displays a faint blush of salmon-pink,w
. The sportsman's British bird book . gdom. In addition to being the largest of the indigenous Britishrepresentatives of the group, measuring i6 inches in length, theSandwich tern, when adult, may be recognised by the black feet, theyellow-tipped black beak, and the slight elongation of the feathers onthe nape of the neck. In summer the crown of the head and nape are SANDWICH TERN 177 of the usual black, the rest of the upper-parts, with the exception ofthe lower portion of the back and the tail, which are white, being black,while the white lower surface displays a faint blush of salmon-pink,which fades almost immediately after death. In winter the head andneck become white with black streaks, although a black patch persistsin front of the eye. Young birds are distinguishable by the more or lessmarked barring of the upper-parts with black and the horn-colouredbeak ; while the chick is greyish tinged with buff, and mottled withblack above and white below. The range of the Sandwich tern includes both coasts of the Atlantic,. MOUNTED IN THE ROWLAND WARD STUDIOS SANDWICH TERN (SUMMEKI. the breeding-area on the western side extending from New Englandto northern Florida, and occasionally Honduras, and on the easternside from the Orkneys to Spain, and thence into the Mediterranean,and so on to the Black and Caspian Seas. In winter the specieswanders on the western side as far as Central America, where it crossesthe Darien Isthmus to enter the Pacific ; and in the Old World toSouth Africa, the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and the shores of north-western India in the neighbourhood of Karachi. Although a commonsummer-visitor to the British Islands, the species has long since desertedits old breeding-haunts in the Scilly Islands, but still nests abundantlyon the Fame Islands, as well as in several other localities on the coastsof England and Scotland and likewise in the Orkneys. In Englandit breeds in the greatest numbers at Ravenglass, on the coast of N 178 GULL GROUP Cumberland, w
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