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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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male, while sitting, is fed by the male ina tender and affectionate manner. Male; length, one foot five inches; bill, black; from itsbase a black streak goes back to the eye; forehead, white,*ending in a concave curve with a point over each eye;*head on the crown and sides, neck on the back, and nape,sooty brown black; the sides of the neck and the lower partof the sides of the head, white; chin, throat, and breast,white. The wings, when closed, reach to within two inches of theend of the tail; primaries, dark sooty brownish black; second-aries, also sooty brownish black, but paler in colour on theouter edges; greater and lesser under wing coverts, white.The tail, which is deeply forked, has the outside feather oneach side white on the outer web, the others are white atthe base; the long feathers are grey below; under tail coverts,white; legs and toes, black; webs, black. In the young bird the tail has the outer feather on eachside hght brown on the middle part, the base and the tip I
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in WHISKERED TERN. Sterna leucopareia, Gould. Temmincec. « Ddamotte, ViEILLOT. Sterna— ....? Leucop .^ da. Z,eMCOS—White. Pareion—The chee ^. The Tern thus denominated has, in Europe, been noticedyu France and Italy, Hungary, Germany, and Dahnatia; mAfrica, in Egypt; and in Asia, in Syria and Borneo. In England, the occurrence of the first specimen was nearLyme Regis, Dorsetshire, the end of August, 1886. Thefact was placed on record by T. C. Heysham, Esq., of Gar-lisle, and his name goes down to posterity m connection,vith it; as do those of other observers in like instances:dikaion gar autois, kai prepon de ama, on to toiode, tentimen tauten tes mnemes didosthai, as Thucydides used tohave it. A second was shot on Heigham sands, Norfolk,on the 19th. of June, 1817, so P. Hansell, Esq. informedme. One, a female in adult plumage, is recorded m theZoologist, page 1820, by J. H. Gurney and W. R. Fisher,Esqrs., to have been shot while flying over Hickhng Broad,Yarmouth, on the l7th.

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