TERNS. 109 



ly forked, feathers not narrowed terminally, 

 fig. 78. White, black-capped, mantle pale. In 



Fig. 78. 



Caspian Tern. 1-2. 



winter back of head, streaked with white. 

 Feet, black. Young, grayish flecked above 

 with dusky; each tail feather has a subter- 

 minal dusky spot. Flight, although heavy, 

 is swift and tern-like. Cries very harsh and 

 rasping suggesting a rapid honking of the 

 Canada Goose. Nearly cosmopolitan, breed- 

 ing south in N. A. to Va., Tex., Nev. and 

 Mich. Not very common on the coast of N. 

 E. 



