DIRECTOli.Y TO BIKDS OF EASTEKX NORTH AMERICA. 53 



young; feet, yellow. Breeds from Manitoba southward to 



Ya., 111., Tex- 

 as, and Cal., 

 thus chiefly in 

 the interior; 

 winters from 

 the Carolinas 

 southward to 

 Brazil; wan- 

 ders occasion- 

 ally to the 

 coast of Mass. 



Fig. 65. 



F. 



1-2. 



C, d, 3. 



Cries, similnr to 2 but harsher. Common. 



4. ARCTIC TERN, S. paradisaea ; differs from 2 in 

 having the bill nearly red, plate 5, the under parts jiearly 

 gray and the feet coral-red. Young have the bill wholly black, 

 the feet yellow, but the rump is always abruptly white. 

 Northern hemisphere; in N. A. breeding from Me. (formerly 

 Mass.) northward ; winters south of the U. S. ; time of mi- 

 gration like 2 ; cries also similar. Not now at all common on 

 the coast of the U. S. 



ROSEATE TERN, S. dougalli ; differs from 2 in be- 



Fie-. m. 



5. 



ing more slender in form 

 with a longer tail which 

 is all white, and the out- 

 er leathers are very nar- 

 row ; strongly tinged with 

 rosy below; bill, usually 

 all black, but is some- 

 times orange at base; 



feet, yellow, plate 6. The % 



young have the back 

 quite heavily but irregu- 

 larly banded and mottled 

 with dusky, and the cap 



I^, C, d, 5. 1-10. 



dusky narrowly streaked with white, fig. 66; the outer web 



