LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS 



[78.] WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN. Hydrochelidon leucoptera. 



Range. Eastern Hemisphere, its addition to Amer- 

 ican birds being made because of the accidental 

 appearance of one bird in Wisconsin in 1873. They 

 lest very abundantly among the lakes and marshes 



Greenish buff 



of southern Europe, placing their 

 eggs the same as the American spe- &*-.- * 

 cies, upon masses of decayed reeds v " - 



and stalks. They lay three eggs 

 which have a somewhat brighter 

 appearance than the common Black 

 Terns because of a somewhat light- 

 er ground color. 



79. NODDY. Anous stolidus. 



Range. Tropical America, north to the 

 Gulf and South Atlantic States, A peculiar 

 but handsome bird (about fifteen inches long), 

 with a silvery white head and the rest of the 

 plumage brownish, and the tail rounded. 

 They breed in abundance on some of the Flor- 

 ida Keys, the West Indies and the Bahamas. 

 Their nests are made of sticks and grass, and 

 are placed either in trees or on the ground. 

 They lay but a single egg with a buffy or 

 cream colored ground spotted with chestnut 

 and lilac. Size 2.00 x 1.30. Atwood's Key, 

 Bahamas, June 1, 1891. Nest made of sticks 

 and grasses, three feet up a mangrove. Col- 

 lector, D. P. Ingraham. 



Buff 



Noddy 



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