_S. minuta_, the Lesser Tern, breeds in many parts of Britain, and extends from about lat. 60° N. in Europe to the Mediterranean, the Caspian, and North India, migrating to South Africa, Burma, and Java. It has a white forehead and belly, black lores, orange feet, and yellow bill with black tip. The two or three whitish or drab eggs, marked with grey and black, differ strikingly from those of the Common Tern and its allies. The larger _S. sinensis_ occurs from Bengal and Ceylon to Japan, New Guinea, and Australia; the greyer-rumped _S. antillarum_, the Least Tern, from northern South America to California and New England, or exceptionally to Labrador and West Africa; _S. saundersi_, with nearly black outer primaries, from East Africa to Burma. _S. superciliaris_, with yellow beak, is peculiar to eastern South {312}America; _S. lorata_, with grey belly, to Peru and Chili; _S. nereis_, with white lores, to Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia; _S. balaenarum_, with black forehead and base of bill, to Southern Africa. _S. fuliginosa_, _S. anaestheta_, and _S. lunata_ are the Sooty Terns, so-called from their dark upper surface; the second being browner and the third greyer than the typical species, wherein alone the young differ from the adults in having brown lower parts instead of white. The forehead is white, the bill and feet are black, while immature birds show whitish markings above. These Terns frequent the tropics, but _S. lunata_ only occurs from the Moluccas to Laysan, the Sandwich Islands, and elsewhere in Polynesia. _S. fuliginosa_ has been obtained three times in England, occasionally on the Continent of Europe, and in America northwards to Maine. The single egg, like that of the Noddy, but with finer red, grey, and lilac markings, is laid on sand or flat rocks; descriptions of the colony, or "Wideawake Fair," on Ascension having been given by several writers.[201] _S. aleutica_ of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Japan, with a slate-grey mantle, white forehead and rump, connects the above with the next section. The remaining species, with white foreheads, are the large _S. bergii_, ranging from East and South-West Africa to Japan and Polynesia, excluding New Zealand, and _S. bernsteini_ of the Seychelles, Rodriguez, Diego Garcia, and Halmahera, both of which have elongated nape-feathers and a yellowish bill, but grey and white rumps respectively. _S. frontalis_, of the New Zealand and Australian Seas, has a black bill.