LONG-WINGEU SWIMMEltS 



[7^-] V\'HiTE-vviN(iED Elack Tern. Hifdroclielidon leucoptera. 



Range. — Eastern Hemisphere, its addition to Amer- 

 ican birds being made because of tlie accidental 

 appearance of one bird in Wisconsin in 1873. They 

 lest very abundantly among the lakes and marshes 



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Greenish l")uff 



of southern Europe, placing their 

 eggs the same as the American spe- 

 cies, upon masses of decayed reeds y •-> 

 and stalks. They lay three eggs -,*: 

 wliich have a somewhat brighter 

 appearance tlian the common Black 

 Terns because of a somewhat light- 

 er ground color. 



79- Noddy. A nous 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 tlie 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. 



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