. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . CONSTRUCTED WITH ALL GRADES OF MECHANICALART, FROM A BARE HOLLOW IN THE SAND, NESTOF COMMON TERN, MAGDALEN ISLANDS The White-Winged Fleet. TO A SLiBSTANTlAI, BED OF CRASS. ANOT}IER NESTOF COMMON TERN, MAGDALEN ISLANDS and Bonapartes Gulls, whose presence certainlyenlivened the scene for me. Off the southern shores of Massachusetts thereare various sandy islands on which these Terns andothers breed
. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . CONSTRUCTED WITH ALL GRADES OF MECHANICALART, FROM A BARE HOLLOW IN THE SAND, NESTOF COMMON TERN, MAGDALEN ISLANDS The White-Winged Fleet. TO A SLiBSTANTlAI, BED OF CRASS. ANOT}IER NESTOF COMMON TERN, MAGDALEN ISLANDS and Bonapartes Gulls, whose presence certainlyenlivened the scene for me. Off the southern shores of Massachusetts thereare various sandy islands on which these Terns andothers of theseothers, not yetspoken of, is thebeautiful Rose-ate Tern, verysimilar in appear-ance and habit,breeding nearand even amongthe other spe-cies, but distinguishable by its slender form and longtail, and a very white breast, that in the right lightshows a beautiful pink blush of a most delicate adjectives that I could use would be far inade-quate to describe the grace and beauty of theRoseate Tern. In the same habitat, from Massachusetts south-ward, is found that dainty little sylph, the LeastTern. I first saw it along the broad, lonely oceanbeaches of the back-side of Cape Cod. There,as we walk along, several little Terns, much smallerthan the other kinds, hover rather high over orbeyond us, uttering their shril
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