. A general history of birds . sland of Ascension are seen in prodigious numbers, so asto darken the air. Dampier observed them near the Coast of New-Holland, and in great plenty off the Roca Islands, near Tortuga,*where he has found the nests; and between New South Wales andNew Guinea one of them settled on the rigging of a ship :f it alsosometimes strays farther south, having been seen in latitude 48. 38. %Most sailors agree, that this, and others of the Noddy Tribe, seldomgo above 70 or 80 leagues from land ; but Captain Cook says, thisis not always to be relied on. The specimen in my colle
. A general history of birds . sland of Ascension are seen in prodigious numbers, so asto darken the air. Dampier observed them near the Coast of New-Holland, and in great plenty off the Roca Islands, near Tortuga,*where he has found the nests; and between New South Wales andNew Guinea one of them settled on the rigging of a ship :f it alsosometimes strays farther south, having been seen in latitude 48. 38. %Most sailors agree, that this, and others of the Noddy Tribe, seldomgo above 70 or 80 leagues from land ; but Captain Cook says, thisis not always to be relied on. The specimen in my collection camefrom Christmas Island, where it is gregarious; it lays a single eggon the bare ground, in the month of December, making no nest. It is also found in North America : Sir Ashton Lever received itfrom New York, from whence General Davies also had a have likewise seen a third from Cayenne. * Damp. Voy. iii. pt. 1. p. 143. Vol. i. p. 53. f Hawkesw. Voy. iii. 652. $ Forst. Voy. i. 113. Cooks Voy.\. p. 66. ]. TERN. 103 4.—NEW-HOLLAND TERN. LENGTH fourteen or fifteen inches. Bill one inch and a halfblack, curved at the tip ; irides blue ; tongue longish, and pointed ;top of the head and behind the neck brown; back the same, butdarker, and mottled ; forehead and all beneath white; quills brown,reaching much beyond the end of the tail; legs brown, bare greatlyabove the knee.—Inhabits New-Holland. Mr. Lambert. 5—TEHARY TERN. SIZE uncertain.* Bill stout and black; irides dusky; head,neck, and under parts, white ; from the middle of the crown to thenape black; back, wings, and tail, pale cinereous blue, the lastmoderately forked, the wings exceed it by about two inches; legsdeep, dull red, the webs between the toes reach about halfway. Inhabits India, in some parts called Kohurry, or Gohurry. In General Hardwickes drawings is one, probably differing insex. The bill black; forehead white, the rest of the crown tingedwith blue; with dusky streaks before, and du
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