. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . &?cfea>&? r^S&S*/^ DMtrn /rem .Vaiitrt S. /■/, S. SCIW ?%>■ !? THE ROSEATE TERN. ]J3 on that excursion. The other Terns were as new to me. I observed theform of their black bill and feet, the yellow tip of the former, and wrappedthem up with care, while I tried to recollect the name they bore in have found hundreds of the Roseate Tern in the Floridas, while I hadanxious but slender hopes of meeting it on the coast of Labrador, was to mequite astonishing.
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . &?cfea>&? r^S&S*/^ DMtrn /rem .Vaiitrt S. /■/, S. SCIW ?%>■ !? THE ROSEATE TERN. ]J3 on that excursion. The other Terns were as new to me. I observed theform of their black bill and feet, the yellow tip of the former, and wrappedthem up with care, while I tried to recollect the name they bore in have found hundreds of the Roseate Tern in the Floridas, while I hadanxious but slender hopes of meeting it on the coast of Labrador, was to mequite astonishing. So it was, however, and I determined to ransack everykey and sand-beach, to try to find its breeding-ground. Nor were mydesires ungratified. The Roseate Tern spends the breeding season along the southern shores ofthe Floridas in considerable numbers. At different times in the course ofnearly three months which I spent among the keys, I saw flocks of twenty,thirty, or more pairs, breeding on small detached rocky islands, scantilyfurnished with grass, and in the compan
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