. The birds of Australia. Birds. 74 THE BIEDS OP AUSTRALIA plumage is white, the bill and feet black. Total length 17 inches, wing 13%, tail 6, tarsi 1%. Three or four eggs are laid, of a yellowish-stone colour, blotched with dark brown and grey markings, dimensions x inch. The Caspian Tern. Hydroprogne caspia. Cosmopolitan. In breeding plumage, forehead, crown, and nape greenish-black; mantle light grey, tail greyish white; underparts white; bill red. In moulting season crown and nape streaked with white and black. Total length about 20 inches, culmen , wing , tail 6, depth o
. The birds of Australia. Birds. 74 THE BIEDS OP AUSTRALIA plumage is white, the bill and feet black. Total length 17 inches, wing 13%, tail 6, tarsi 1%. Three or four eggs are laid, of a yellowish-stone colour, blotched with dark brown and grey markings, dimensions x inch. The Caspian Tern. Hydroprogne caspia. Cosmopolitan. In breeding plumage, forehead, crown, and nape greenish-black; mantle light grey, tail greyish white; underparts white; bill red. In moulting season crown and nape streaked with white and black. Total length about 20 inches, culmen , wing , tail 6, depth of fork : the dimensions of these birds vary "The Emu.' Crested Tern: Sterna beroii. A. J. Camphell. Nest a slight depression in the ground, either well above the sea on small islands or on the sand spits. Two eggs form the usual clutch, and are brownish stone colour, blotched all over with irregular dark brown markings, those under the surface being the usual grey. They measure about x inch. The Roseate Tern. Sterna gracilis. Coasts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Northern Australia. Forehead, crown, and nape black, neck white, mantle light grey, primaries darker, the inner margins of their webs with white borders, tail light grey to white, outer webs of the long streamers quite white;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakspere; Le Soue?f, W. H. Dudley. Melbourne, London [etc. ] Whitcombe and Tombs Limited
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