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[Also tarn; wings. This tern chiefly inhabits arctic and cold temper. ate parts of both hemispheres. Its synonymy is intri cate, owing to confusion of names with the common and roseate terns, and the description of its varying plumages under specific designations. - Black tern, any tern of the genus Hydro che lid on; specifically, H. fi ipes or lari for mis. The white-winged black tern is H. leu copter a. The whiskered black tern is H. leuco par i a. There are others. These are marsh-terns of most parts of the world, with semipalmate feet, comparatively short and little-forked tail, extremely ample as well as long wings, black bill, dark feet, and most of the plumage of the adults black or of some dark ashy shade. - Boys's tern, the Sandwich tern, one of whose former names was Sterna boys i, after Dr. Boys of Kent, England. - Bridled tern, Sterna ( Hali plan a) anæsthetica, a member of the sooty tern group, found in some of the warmer parts of the world. The 6244 Ternstræmiaceæ twenty-seven straight lines lying in a cubic surface. frontal lunule is very long, the feet are scarcely more than semipalmate, and the length is 14 or 15 inches.Cabot's tern, the American Sandwich tern, which Dr. Cabot once named Sterna acuslavida. - Caspian tern, tern3 (tern), n. [Origin uncertain.] A three Sterna ( Thala eus ) caspia; the imperial tern. It is the masted schooner; a three-master. [Local, New largest tern known, being from 20 to 23 inches long, and 4 to 44 feet in spread of wings; it is white, with pearl mantle, ternal Eng.] black cap and feet, and red bill. It is widely distributed nal (ter'nal), a. [ in Asia, America, and elsewhere. The name S. tschegrava was given to it by Lepechin, before Pallas named it caspia. - Cayenne tern, Sterna ( Thala eus ) maxima, formerly S. cayennensis or cayand, the largest tern of America except the imperial, 18 or 20 inches long, and from 42 to 44 exand coral or yellow bill. It inhabits much of both Amertent. It is white, with pearl mantle, black cap and feet, icas, and is common along the Atlantic coast of the United States. See cut under Thala ous. - Common tern, Ster inches long, 31 in extent, and with pearly-white under na hirundo, a bird of most parts of the about 14 parts, pearl mantle, black cap, coral feet, and vermilion black-tipped bill. It is needle ly named Wilson's tern. Also called gull - teaser, kirr-mew, picket, picktarny, pirr, rippock, rittock, scray, spurre, tarny, tarret, tarrock. See cut under Sterna. Ducal tern, the Sandwich tern. Coues, 1884.-Elegant tern, Sterna ( Thala eus ) elegans, a bird of South and Central America and the Pacific coast of the United States, resembling the Cayenne tern. W. Gambel. Emperor tern. See emperor.-Fairy tern, a fairy-bird; one of the least terns. - Forster's tern, Sterna forsteri, an American tern abounding in the United States and British America. It closely resembles but is distinct from the common tern, as was first noted in 1834 by Thomas Nuttall, who dedicated it tern. - Gull-billed tern, a marsh-tern, Sterna (Geloto John Reinhold Forster. - Greater tern, the common chelidon) anglica: so called from its thick bill. See cut immature plumage. Audubon, 1839.-Hooded tern, a under Gel oche lid on. - Havell's tern, Forster's tern in rare name of the least tern.- Imperial tern, the Ameri can Caspian tern, Sterna ( Thala eus ) imperator. Coues, 1862.- Kentish tern, the Sandwich tern. - Least terns, the small terns which constitute the subgenus Sternula, of several species. That of Europe is S. minuta; of America, S. an till arum; of South Africa, S. balænarum, etc. They are the smallest of the family, of the usual coloration, but with a white crescent in the black cap, yellow bill tipped with black, and yellow or orange feet; the tail is not deeply forked; the length is 9 inches or le . See cut under Sternula. - Marsh-tern. (a) The gull-billed tern. (b) A black tern; any member of the genus Hydro che lid on, See cut under Hydro che lid on. - Noddy tern. See noddy1, 2, and Anoüs.-Panay ternt, an old name of the bridled tern, considered a distinct species under the name Sterna pan a yens is. Latham, 1785.- Paradise tern, the roseate tern: a name derived from Sterna paradise a of Brünnich, 1764, which is of doubtful identification, and probably means the arctic tern. - Portland tern, a young arctic Ridgway, 1874.- Princely tern, the elegant tern. Coues, tern: named from the city of Portland in Maine. R. 1881.- Roseate tern. See roscate. - Royal tern, the Cayenne tern. W. Gambel. - Sandwich tern Sterna ( Tha la eus ) cantiaca, a tern originally described from Kent, England, and in some ome of its forms found in most parts of the world. It has many technical names. The American noun), ternary (ter'na-ri), a. and n. [F. ternaire = consisting of threes, II. n.; pl. ternaries (-riz). The number three; a group of three. Of the second ternary of stanzas [in "The Progre of Poetry"], the first endeavours to tell something. Johnson, Gray.