. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 68 BIRDS OF AMERICA as I am positive they must have been breeding there, and this is the only case thus far known. Photo by H. K. Job Courtesy ut Doubluday, Page i; Co. NEST OF BLACK TERN The merest apology for a nest, being a slight depression, lined with a few wet stems, on some little hummock which may happen to project from the water of any evidence of their breeding on the Atlantic coast. On another occasion also I witnessed a peculiar happening with the species. It is well known that they do not breed until two years old and in full plumage. I
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 68 BIRDS OF AMERICA as I am positive they must have been breeding there, and this is the only case thus far known. Photo by H. K. Job Courtesy ut Doubluday, Page i; Co. NEST OF BLACK TERN The merest apology for a nest, being a slight depression, lined with a few wet stems, on some little hummock which may happen to project from the water of any evidence of their breeding on the Atlantic coast. On another occasion also I witnessed a peculiar happening with the species. It is well known that they do not breed until two years old and in full plumage. In their second summer thev are in an immature, white-breasted phase. In winter all migrate down into Central and South America, and only a comparative few of the im- mature plumaged birds of a year old are ob- served in our borders. In June, 1915, while cruising along the western coast of Louisiana, I saw great clouds of rather small birds, resem- bling in the distance flights of Golden Plovers such as I had seen many years ago, performing evolutions high in the air, and then settling down on the shores of a sandy inlet back of the outer beach. We managed to land and cross to it, and were amazed to find there swarms of Black Terns, nearly all in the one-year-old plumage, with a very few adults intermingled, fairly cover- ing the flats for probably a couple of miles. There must have been tens of thousands of them, and their identity was proved by collecting a few. This would indicate that the _\-oung remain well to the south, not migrating north to any consider- able extent until fully mature. Herbert K. Job. NODDY Anoiis stolidus (LiiDunis) A. O. U. Xumher 70 General Description.— Length. i6 inches. Color of head and neck, gray; of hody, brown. Tail, rounded, the central feathers longest. Color.— Forehead, white; crown, leaden-gray; sides of head and neck all around, bluish-slate with a dark spot in front of eye; rest of pUiinage, deep brown blackening on wings and tail; bi
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