. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. [99. COMMON TERN. GREAT TERN, KIRMEW, OR SEA-SWALLOW.\Sfefna Hirundoj Lin.—La grande Hirondelledemerf BufF.) This bird meafures above fourteen inches inlength, thirty in breadth, and weighs more thanfour ounces. The bill is of a crimfon colour, tip-ped with black, and about two inches and a quarterin length: the head is capped with a longifh blackpatch, which extends over-the eyes, and ends in apoint below the. nape of the neck: the throat,cheeks, neck, and the whole of the under parts arewhite : the tail, which is long
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. [99. COMMON TERN. GREAT TERN, KIRMEW, OR SEA-SWALLOW.\Sfefna Hirundoj Lin.—La grande Hirondelledemerf BufF.) This bird meafures above fourteen inches inlength, thirty in breadth, and weighs more thanfour ounces. The bill is of a crimfon colour, tip-ped with black, and about two inches and a quarterin length: the head is capped with a longifh blackpatch, which extends over-the eyes, and ends in apoint below the. nape of the neck: the throat,cheeks, neck, and the whole of the under parts arewhite : the tail, which is long, and greatly forked,is alfo white, except the two outfide feathers, whichare black on their exterior webs; but in flying,thefe forks are frequently clofed fo as to look like alingle feather. The upper part of the plumage is 200 BRITISH BIRDS. of a fine pale lead colour : the quills are of a deepercaft, the outfide ones the darkeft : the legs and feetred. The female, it is faid, forms her neft in the mofsor long coarfe grafs, near the lake, and lays three orfour eggs of a
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