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4. The same bird settling down. 



5. The same bird tucking the eggs under her feathers. 



6. The same bird settled on her nest. 



III. Common Tern. {Sterna fiuviatilis.) 



1. A rather bulky nest_, which was made of dried grass 



and placed among grass. 



2. Nest on the soft sand, where the footprints of the 



birds were easily visible. 



3. Nest among loose and dead fir-twigs. 



4. Male escorting the female to the nest. 



5. A full-face portrait. 



6. Securing her balance. 



7. "The white sails of the Sea-Swallow." 



8. ^' The beauty of white wings.'^ 



9. " The poetry of pose." 



IV. Roseate Tern. [Sterna dougalli.) 



1. Portion of the sea-cliff near the summit of M'hich 



three pairs of Roseate Terns nested. 



2. Nest and egg in a cleft of rock. 



3. Ditto — several bones forming part of the nesting- 



materials. 



4. Roseate Tern "crarking^^ at an intruder. 



5. Pull-length vieAV of Roseate Tern standing on a 



point of rock. 



6. Three-quarter view of the same bird. 



7. Female Tern running down a slope of rock to her 



nest. 



8. The same bird about to settle on her nest. 



9. Showing the sitting bird panting from the heat. 

 ]0. A full-face portrait. 



11-13. Roseate Tern alighting on a point of rock above 



her nest. 

 ]4. A tremendous struggle to gain a foothold. 



