. The birds of Ontario; being a concise account of every species of bird known to have been found in Ontario with a description of their nests and eggs and instructions for collecting birds and preparing and preserving skins, also directions how to form a collection of eggs . s ofan angered ocean ceaselessly beat, to the low, sandy shores of the(Julf, caressed by the soothing billows of a tropical sea. Macoun mentions it as breeding on all the lakes of any sizethroughout the North-West, and Dr. Bell has found it along theNelson River and at York Factory on Hudsons Bay. In Lake Erie, a little w
. The birds of Ontario; being a concise account of every species of bird known to have been found in Ontario with a description of their nests and eggs and instructions for collecting birds and preparing and preserving skins, also directions how to form a collection of eggs . s ofan angered ocean ceaselessly beat, to the low, sandy shores of the(Julf, caressed by the soothing billows of a tropical sea. Macoun mentions it as breeding on all the lakes of any sizethroughout the North-West, and Dr. Bell has found it along theNelson River and at York Factory on Hudsons Bay. In Lake Erie, a little way out from the mouth of the (hand Ri\er,is Mohawk Island, where Dr. Macallum says this gull used in formeryears to breed regularly along with Forsters and the Common is still seen there in small numbers during the summer, but of latethe boys have got into the habit of visiting the ishind on Sundaysduring the nesting time, bringing away large (juantities of eggs, so CASPIAN TERN. 51 that now the place is coiu]>aratively deserted. In the spring itsplumage is so perfect, and its Hight so light and graceful, that itattracts notice wherever it appears. In Southern Ontario it is seenonly in small numbers, tlH> migt-atory route being mostly along thesea SuBFAMiLV STERNIN^ Tkrxs. Gems STERNA Subgenus THALASSEU8 Bone. STERNA TSCHEGRAYA LEPEni. L.). Caspian Tern. (04) Adulf malt-:—Crown, sides of the liead, and hind head, hlack, glossed \\\\\\green: back and wings, light bhusli-gray ; tlie outer primaries, dai-k hluisli-grayon the inner webs; upper tail coverts and tail grayisii-white; neck and lowerparts, pure white; bill, i-ich vermilion; legs and feet, l)lack; tail, slightlyforked. Yoiuu/:—Mottled and )>arred with tluU brown. Length, *2(» inches. Hab.— Xearly cosmopolitan; in North America breeding sf)utliward toVirginia, Lake Michigan, Nevada and California. Eggs, two or three, laid in a ludlow in the sand ; pale olive buff, markedwith s]i(i
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