. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . bation, or very darkor Avet weather; and the student,to avail himself of it, must beon the spot at the proper moment a person approach-es one of their bi-eeding places,the whole colony leave their eggsor young, and fly to meet theintruder. I have been on anisland of not mo
. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . bation, or very darkor Avet weather; and the student,to avail himself of it, must beon the spot at the proper moment a person approach-es one of their bi-eeding places,the whole colony leave their eggsor young, and fly to meet theintruder. I have been on anisland of not more than thirtyacres area, where thousands ofthese birds of both species, and also the following, werebreeding; and their cries, kree ^kree ^kree, were so loud thatmy companions within twenty feet of me had to shout attheir loudest to make their words intelligible. The Arctic Tern, like all the others, leaves its eggs inwarm sunny days for several hours, depending on the sunto assist in incubation. When one bird is shot, the others,instead of flying off, only redouble their outcries, dartingdown at the intruder within a few feet of his head; and thenoise and confusion are so great, that one is almost bewil-dered, and can hardly keep his wits about him sufficientlyto secure and properly identify his STERNA FRENATA.—GamJeZ. The Least Tern. Sterna minuta, Wilson. Am. Orn., VII. (1813) 80. Aud. Orn. Biog., IV. (1888175. lb., Birds Am., VII. (1844) 119. Sterna artjentea, NuttiiU- Man., II. (1834) 280. 550 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLUui. Description. Adult. — On the forehead is a triangular white spot extending to the eye; crowuocciput, and a line from the eye to the upper mandible, deep-black; entire uppeiplumage and wings clear bluish-gray; first two primaries with the outer web andhalf the inner next the shaft, grayish-black, ends of the same color, inner marginswhite, the shafts of these two quills are black; the other primaries same color as theback, with the inner margin
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