Plate CCXXXV.
Bill slightly longer than the head, rather slender, and with the feet
black; tail very deeply forked, much longer than the wings; forehead
white; lores, upper part of head, hind neck, and all the upper parts
deep black, tinged with brown, on the head glossed with blue; edges of
wings and lateral tail-feathers white, the latter with the inner web
toward the end dusky; lower parts and sides of head and neck pure
white. Young with the lower parts and forehead white, the upper parts
greyish-brown, the feathers edged with brownish-white, the primary
quills greyish-black.
_Male_, 16-1/4, 34-3/4.
From Texas to the Floridas, in spring. Breeds in immense multitudes on
the Tortugas. Migratory.
Sterna fuliginosa, Bonap. Syn. p. 355.
Sooty Tern, Sterna fuliginosa, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p.
145.
Sooty Tern, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 284.
Sooty Tern, Sterna fuliginosa, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 263;
v. v. p. 641.