. Birds of North Carolina . V : Fig. 11. \RTE3 Gull. January 28, 1901. A flock of more than eighty was seen close to the liciirh atFort IMacon, A])ril 10, 1898, and five specimens were taken by our ])arty. One waskilled at Lindley Park, near Greensboro, March 20, 1904, and brought to me foridentification. The species probably occurs inland not infreciuently.—Pearson. SUBFAMILY STERNIN/E. TERNS Genus Gelochelidon iBrehm.)16. Gelochelidon nilotica (Linn.). (iuLL-BiLLED Tern. Ads. in summer.—Top of head and nape black: bark and wings pale pearl-gray; outer webof outer primaries silvery; tip
. Birds of North Carolina . V : Fig. 11. \RTE3 Gull. January 28, 1901. A flock of more than eighty was seen close to the liciirh atFort IMacon, A])ril 10, 1898, and five specimens were taken by our ])arty. One waskilled at Lindley Park, near Greensboro, March 20, 1904, and brought to me foridentification. The species probably occurs inland not infreciuently.—Pearson. SUBFAMILY STERNIN/E. TERNS Genus Gelochelidon iBrehm.)16. Gelochelidon nilotica (Linn.). (iuLL-BiLLED Tern. Ads. in summer.—Top of head and nape black: bark and wings pale pearl-gray; outer webof outer primaries silvery; tip and shaft-part of inner web darker; inner part of inner web,except for afnarrow margin at end of featlier, white; tail white, slightly forked, the middle. Fig. 12. Gill-billed Terk. feather grayish; utulcrparts white; bill and feet black, the forinor ratlicr .-^hort and in icintcr.—Similar to the above, but lop of the head white, auriculars gravish, and aspace in front of the eve blackish. L., ; W., ; T., ^0; B., ; depth of B. , .50. {Chap., Jiirds of E. X. A.) Range.—Cosmopolitan, chiefly on sea-coa,sts. Range in Norlk Carolina.—Coastal region in summer; rare. Descriptive List 33 A pair of these exceedingly rare birds was reported by Warden N. F. Jennett tohave reared young on Miller Lump, a small island in Dare County, during thesummer of 1909. On June 26, 1909, Bowdish identified one at this place. So faras known, the only other breeding place of these birds along the Atlantic coast ofthe United States at this time is near Cobbs Island, Virginia. This species issaid to be very partial to insects and catches large numbers of them while flying. Genus Sterna (Linn.) KEY TO SPECIES 1. Wing more th
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