. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. 548 OUNITIIOLOOY AND OOLOGY. May, and as late as the 12th of July. I liavc scon, in the 8i)ace of a square rod, eggs, in which the chicks were about ready to bre
. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. 548 OUNITIIOLOOY AND OOLOGY. May, and as late as the 12th of July. I liavc scon, in the 8i)ace of a square rod, eggs, in which the chicks were about ready to break tlie shell, and others that were ai)parently but just laid; and, close beside them both, were squatting young birds almost fully grown and feathered. About the 15th of June is +he period when the eggs of this species are in the best condition in New J]ngland for cabinet preservation; the young thou being, as a general thing, scarcely formed. Early in October, these birds begin to be scarce in our latitude, and they spend the winter on the shores of the southern gulf. STERNA MACROUEA. —iVaumarm. The Arctic Tern. Sterna macrmtra, Naumann. Isis (1819, 1847). Sterna Arctica, Tcmm. Man. d'On,., II. (1820) 742. Bon. Syn. (1828), No. 287. Sw. and Hicli. V. B. A., II. (1831) 414. Nutt. Man., II. (1834)275. Aud. Orn. IJiog., III. (1635) 366. Jb., Birds Am., VII. (1844) 107. DKSC'ltirTION. A'lult -Upper part of the head and hind neck black; back and wings lisht gravi«h-bhie; lirst primary deep-black on the outer web, dusky-gray on the inner next the shall, and over tlie entire web at the end, inner margin ofiimerweb wiiite; the next live primaries are bluish-gray on the outer web and on the nmer wel) next the shaft, this color extending over the entire web at the end, where it is l)laekish- L'rav on the inner margin, the remaining part of inner web white; central tail feathers and inner webs of the others white, the outer web of the outer tail featlior blaekish-giav. the outer wtb
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