Sterna anaetheta, Scop.
992. :- O. anasthaetus, Scop. :- Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 844; S. anasthaetus, Scop.; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 325; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 441.
THE BROWN-WINGED TERN.
Length, 14; wing, 10; tail, 6.75 ; tarsus, 0.7; bill at front, 1.6.
Bill dusky reddish, red at base of lower mandible; irides brown; legs coral-red.
Forehead white, top of the head black ; nape pure silky-white ; plumage above ashy-grey, with white margins to the feathers of the back; wings dusky brown, black along the margin, over the radius, and edged in front with white ; quills blackish, paler internally ; face and lower plumage white.
The Brown-winged Tern occurs on the Sind and Mekran Coasts.
BookTitle:
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference:
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book:
Sterna anaetheta
Year:
1885
Page No:
433
Common name:
Brown-winged Tern
M_ID:
4624
M_CN:
Bridled Tern
M_SN:
Onychoprion anaethetus
Term name:
id:
12231
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