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is always abruptly white ; cries quite 

 similar to those of common Tern but more 

 interrupted. Northern Hemisphere, now 

 breeding from Me. (formerly from southern 

 Mass.) north to Arctic. Time of migration 

 similar to that of Common Tern with which 

 is then associates at least as far south as 

 coast of Mass. ; winters in the Antarctic. 



82. ROSEATE TERN. 



More slender ; tail longer than any of 

 the preceeding, and this has the outer 

 feather very narrow terminally and is wholly 

 white; bill, black; feet, yellow; in summer 

 tinged with rosy beneath, fig. 86. Young 

 have back banded and mottled with dusky 

 and bill and feet black, fig. 87. Cry O-ar-ar- 

 ar, harsh and rooling, difficult to imitate. 

 Temperate and Tropical regions ; breeds, 

 from south shore of Mass, southward in 

 May ; winters south of U. S., south in Aug.; 

 north in May ; often wanders in fall north 

 of Cape Ann. Common. 



