. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . s obtuse ; its sides come abruptlytogether, and are completely soldered ; the upper edge is assharp as the under, and fits a groove in the upper mandible;the jaw-bone, viewed apart, looks like a short-handled upper mandible is also compressed, but less so, nor is it RHYNCHOPS NIGRA : BLACK SKIMMER. 377 SO obtuse at the end ; its substance is nearly hollow, with lightcancellated structure, much as in a toucan ; it is freely movableby means of an elastic hinge at the forehead. Plumage glossyblack, the forehead, s
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . s obtuse ; its sides come abruptlytogether, and are completely soldered ; the upper edge is assharp as the under, and fits a groove in the upper mandible;the jaw-bone, viewed apart, looks like a short-handled upper mandible is also compressed, but less so, nor is it RHYNCHOPS NIGRA : BLACK SKIMMER. 377 SO obtuse at the end ; its substance is nearly hollow, with lightcancellated structure, much as in a toucan ; it is freely movableby means of an elastic hinge at the forehead. Plumage glossyblack, the forehead, sides of head and neck, and all under parts,pure white, or rosy-tinted; tail ashy and white ; bill red, black-tipped ; feet orange. Young: grayish-black or dull brown above,varied with white ; bill yellow, dusky-tipped. Length, inches; extent, feet; wing, inches;tail, , forked; under mandible, ; upper, The only record of this species occurring in NewEngland, was given by Linsley in 1843, in his Catalogue. Fig. So. — Bili, of Skimmer. Nat. size. of the Birds of Connecticut ; but since then, writershave considered that it was given without sufficientproof. Under date of Aug. 20, 1879, Mr. Charles I. Goodalewrites me that three specimens of the Black Skimmerwere shot at Sandwich, Cape Cod, Mass., on the 19thinst., and that the next day a fourth specimen waskilled off Pettocks Island, Boston Harbor, which latterbird he has preserved, My friend, Mr. George A. Boardman, of Milltown,St. Stephens, N. B., under date of Aug. 31, 1879, writesme that there had been a flight of Skimmers in hislocality, and that seven specimens had been killed off 3/8 LARID^. : JAEGERS, GULLS, TERNS, ETC. Grand Menan and Campobello Island, and that theywere seen at St. Andrews, at the head of Passamaquoddy •Bay. On the same date, while sailing some ten milesfrom shore off Saco, Maine, I saw a single bird, undoubt-edly of this species, flying r
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