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EOSEATE TEEN. 



PLATE CCXIV. 



Sterna Douyalli, MONTAGU. BEWICK. FLEMING. 



" " SELBT. JENTNS. GOULD. 



THIS species makes its nest among the herbage there may be on 

 low banks of sand or shingle, or upon the bare ground itself. 



The eggs are two or three in number; the ground colour yellowish 

 cream white, pale brown, or yellowish olive green, spotted and speckled 

 with grey and brown. 



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