. Bombay ducks; an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist's Eldorado . WINGED FISHERFOLK 271 performance to appear commonplace. What bird isthere more graceful than the swallow of the sea?There is something truly fascinating about it as it sailsthrough the air. The easy motion of its long wingsputs me in mind of a perfectly trained racing eightpaddling up to the starting-post before a race. Terns resemble swallows in many respects. Theformer are, of course, larger and of lighter hue. Thereis a marked difference, too, in the mode of flight. If atern reminds one
. Bombay ducks; an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist's Eldorado . WINGED FISHERFOLK 271 performance to appear commonplace. What bird isthere more graceful than the swallow of the sea?There is something truly fascinating about it as it sailsthrough the air. The easy motion of its long wingsputs me in mind of a perfectly trained racing eightpaddling up to the starting-post before a race. Terns resemble swallows in many respects. Theformer are, of course, larger and of lighter hue. Thereis a marked difference, too, in the mode of flight. If atern reminds one of a rowing eight paddling along, theswallow resembles the eight racing at high pressure. No one can fail to recognize a tern. If you see aslenderly-built bird of whitish tinge, with long swallow-like wings and a forked tail, a bird which sails alongeasily over water, sometimes diving for a fish, morefrequently picking something off the surface of thewater, you may set that bird down as a tern. Three species are common about Madras. The mostabundant is the gull-bird tern {Sterna angelica). Thisis t
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