. Nests and eggs of North American birds; . merica chiefly along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the UnitedStates. In North America the Marsh Tern, as it is commonly called,breeds from New Jersey southward. On Cobbs Island, Va., it nestssparingly in the latter part of June. Dr. James C. Merrill and GeorgeB. Sennett found a colony of this species in company with Sternaforsteri, breeding on a grassy island, among lagoons and marshes, nearFort Brown, Texas, May 16, 1877. The nests were slight depressionsamong the short grass, and the eggs were frequently wet.* This Ternbreeds abundantly on Pelica
. Nests and eggs of North American birds; . merica chiefly along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the UnitedStates. In North America the Marsh Tern, as it is commonly called,breeds from New Jersey southward. On Cobbs Island, Va., it nestssparingly in the latter part of June. Dr. James C. Merrill and GeorgeB. Sennett found a colony of this species in company with Sternaforsteri, breeding on a grassy island, among lagoons and marshes, nearFort Brown, Texas, May 16, 1877. The nests were slight depressionsamong the short grass, and the eggs were frequently wet.* This Ternbreeds abundantly on Pelican Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, in thelatter part of May, laying its eggs on the bare sand. Farther south,on the islands along the coast of Mexico and in the Bahamas, it isknown to nest in great numbers. The eggs are usually three in num-ber, sometimes four. They vary from yellowish-buff to greenish,spotted and blotched with yellowish-brown and lilac, especially about *Notes on the Ornithology of Southern Texas. V Copyright 1886. PLATE II. PIED-BILLED GREBES AND NEST. (Podilymbus podiccps.} PAGE 5. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 33 the larger end, but, like the eggs of all terns, are extremely average size is This is the only species of tern having the bill shaped in a noticea-ble degree like that of a gull — hence its common name. Marsh Tern is another name by which it is known, but this is notregarded as exactly correct. According to the best authorities the Gull-billed Tern is a speciesof wide distribution and is characteristic of no particular region, breed-ing alike in the islands of the Indian Ocean and in those of the Gulfof Mexico, the islands and the coasts of Jutland in Denmark andalong the coast and the interior in the marshes and lagoons of southernSouth America. A few specimens have been taken on the coasts ofFrance and Germany, and it is recorded as being common in Hun-gary, Greece, and Asia Minor, where it breeds. It is known to breed in various
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