. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . a quarter in length; the throat, cheeks, neck and wholeof the under parts are white. The upper part of the plu-mage is of a fine pale lead colour; the legs and feet arered. The bird is sometimes called the Sea-Swallow. Itsflight, however, is not in the sweeping, shooting style ofthe land swallows ; but the motions of its long wings areslower, and more in the manner of the gull. It has greatpower of wing, and strength in the musele
. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . a quarter in length; the throat, cheeks, neck and wholeof the under parts are white. The upper part of the plu-mage is of a fine pale lead colour; the legs and feet arered. The bird is sometimes called the Sea-Swallow. Itsflight, however, is not in the sweeping, shooting style ofthe land swallows ; but the motions of its long wings areslower, and more in the manner of the gull. It has greatpower of wing, and strength in the museles of the neck,which enable it to make sudden and violent plunges onits prey from a considerable height. 256 THE LESSER TERN. THE LESSER This species is considerably smaller than the preceding,but surpasses it in the rich, glossy, satin-like white plu-mage, with which its throat, breast and whole lower partsare covered. It is a bird of passage, but does not visitvery high northern latitudes, being delicate, and suscep-tible of cold. The eggs of this bird are generally four innumber, an inch and a half in length, of a dirty yellowishbrown, dashed all over with red blotches. In former times, the fishermen used to float a cross ofwood, in the middle of which was fastened a small fish fora bait, with limed twigs stuck to the four corners; andthe Tern, darting on this, was entangled by the must have been for mere sport, or for its feathers, asthis bird is usually lean and savouring very strongly offish. This bird is met with on the shores of America, in thesouth of Russia, about the Black and Caspian Sea, and inSiberia about the Irtish. THE FULMAR. THE STORMY PETREL. 257 THE FULMAR
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