. The birds of Canada : with descriptions of their habits, food, nests, eggs, times of arrival and departure . on ; bill, deep carmine. vS. frejiata.—The Least Tern. The Least Tern is an irregular visitor. Breedson the sea coast. Length, nine inches ; color,bluish-gray above; underneath, white; bill,orange ; legs and feet, orange-red. 6\ fidiginosa.—The Sooty Tern. This Tern is a regular summer visitor. Head,neck, and abdomen, black; back and wings,plumbeous-gray. 5. paridisea.—Roseate Tern. The Roseate Tern is an irregular summervisitor in Canada. Rhynchops nigra.—Black Skimmer or Sheerwater.
. The birds of Canada : with descriptions of their habits, food, nests, eggs, times of arrival and departure . on ; bill, deep carmine. vS. frejiata.—The Least Tern. The Least Tern is an irregular visitor. Breedson the sea coast. Length, nine inches ; color,bluish-gray above; underneath, white; bill,orange ; legs and feet, orange-red. 6\ fidiginosa.—The Sooty Tern. This Tern is a regular summer visitor. Head,neck, and abdomen, black; back and wings,plumbeous-gray. 5. paridisea.—Roseate Tern. The Roseate Tern is an irregular summervisitor in Canada. Rhynchops nigra.—Black Skimmer or Sheerwater. This fowl occasionally visits Lake Ontario inthe spring, retiring south to breed in , head, neck, and wings, black ; throat,breast, and abdomen, white ; legs, scarlet ;length of the upper mandible, three inches anda-half; of the lower, four inches and peculiar formation of its bill, the lowermandible being one inch longer than the upper,enables it easily to obtain its food while skim-ming over the surface of the water. Birds of Canada. 113 Sub-Family COLYMBINyE.— The GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. Colynihus torqnatns. 01 The Great Northern Diver,Loon. The Great Northern Diver is a resident ofCanada. Nests, on an island, or in a meadow ormarsh, near the borders of the interior lakes ;eggs, two or three in number, of a reddish-browncolor, with an olive tint. This bird is twenty-eight inches in length. Head and neck, bluish-green ; upper plumage and wing coverts, deepglossy black, marked with white spots. C. scptentrionalis.—The Red-throated Diver. This species is not so common as the GreatNorthern Diver, usually arriving here in October 114 Birds of Canada. from the coast of Labrador, where it , above, brownish-black, tinged with green ;underneath, white ; bill, bluish-black; iris, brightred ; feet, brownish-black. Sub-Family —17:c Grebes. Podiceps griscigena.—The Red-necked Grebe. The Red-necked Grebe breeds in the fa
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