Plate CCLXXIII. Male.
Bill longer than the head, stout; wings longer than the tail, which is
moderately forked; bill carmine; feet black; upper part of the head
and occiput greenish-black; back and wings light greyish-blue; primary
quills bluish-grey on their outer webs, darker on the outer part of
the inner, their inner part white, as are the ends and inner webs of
the secondaries; upper tail-coverts and tail greyish-white; all the
other parts pure white.
_Male_, 19, 44.
From Texas, in spring, to the Floridas, where it breeds on the
Tortugas. Labrador, but not observed in the intermediate parts of the
Atlantic coast. Abundant. Migratory.
Sterna cayana, Bonap. Syn. v. ii. p. 353.
Cayenne Tern, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 208.
Cayenne Tern, Sterna cayana, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 505;
v. v. p. 639.