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I 65 Gull-billed Tern (Long-legged), Gelochelidon macro- 

 1 tarsa (anglica), cos. r, rivers, swamps inland 17 



White; crown, hind-neck black; upper, wing-quills silvery- 

 gray; bill long, stout, black; long legs and feet black; 

 winter head white streaked black; f., sim. Small 

 fish, insects. 

 1 66 Caspian Tern, Taranui, Sterna (Hydroprogne) caspia, 

 1 cos. exc. S. Ajner. c. shore 20.5 



Head, hind-neck black; back, wings, tail pale-gray; dark- 

 gray wing-quills; under white; bill scarlet; dives; f., 

 smaller. Fish. 

 10 67*Crested Tern (Swift, Riippell, Bass-St., Torres-St.), 

 37 Village Blacksmith, Sterna bergii, Red S., Indian 0., 



to Japan to A., Pac. Is. v.c. ocean 17 



Crown, crest black; forehead, sides and back of neck, 

 under, white; back, wings, tail dark-gray; bill yellow; 

 legs, feet black; f., sim. Fish. 



68 White-fronted Tern (Southern), S. striata (frontalis) , 



E.A., T., N.Z. c. shore 13 



Upper delicate-gray; wing-quills grayish-black; forehead, 

 side-neck, under white; bill, about eye, hind-neck black; 

 f., sim. Small fish. 



69 Bridled Tern (Brown-winged, Panayan, Smaller-Sooty), 



S. anaestheta, tropical, sub-tropical seas. v.c. shore 14.5 

 Upper light sooty-brown; forehead, line over eye, throat, 

 under white; crown, nape, line from bill past eye 

 black; bill, legs, feet black; like 70, but smaller; back, 

 wings brown; f., sim. Fish. 



nests on the precipitous granite Albatross Rock, and be unable 

 to land owing to the rough sea that was running. We waited 

 a second and a third day, in the shelter of Chimney 

 Corner, Three Hummocks Island, but finally had to 

 depart with but a distant acquaintance with this fine bird. 

 When they return to nest the succeeding year, the parents 

 drive last year's brood off the island. Does the young live 

 on its fat all through the cold, rough winter, or do the parents 

 return at intervals to feed it? Some recent records by a French 

 party on one of these lonely nesting islands show that in some 

 cases, at least, the parents do feed the young at night during their 

 long wait. The sitting bird is fed by her mate. He opens his 

 mouth, and she inserts her bill, and chooses a dainty for herself. 



A Monograph of the Petrels, by F. Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., 

 Pres. British Ornithologists' Union, was consulted for Order VIII. 



The birds of Order IX. are mainly shore birds. There are four 

 chief kinds of these — Terns (Sea-Swallows), including Noddy 

 Terns, Gulls, the remarkable northern Skimmers, which skim 

 along the surface with the lengthened end of the lower mandible 

 in the water, and the bold sea-pirates, Skuas. Fifty-seven Terns 

 and Noddies are found throughout the world. Of these, twenty- 

 one have been recorded from Australian waters. 



