AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD BOOK. 
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1 65 Gull-billed Tern (Long-legged), Gelochelidon macro- 
1 tarsa (anglica), cos. r, rivers, swamps inland 17 
White; crown, hind-neck black; upper, wing-quills silvery- 
gray; bill long, stout, black; long legs and feet black; 
winter head white streaked black; f., sim. Small 
fish, insects. 
1 66 Caspian Tern, Taranui, Sterna (Hydroprogne) caspia, 
1 COS. exc. S. A.mer. c. shore 20.5 
Head, hind-neck black; back, wings, tail pale-gray; dark- 
gray wing-quills; under white; bill scarlet; dives; f., 
smaller. Fish. 
10 67*Crested Tern (Swift, Ruppell, Bass-St., Torres-St.), 
37 Village Blacksmith, Sterna tergii, Red S., Indian O., 
to Japan to A., Pac. Is. v.c. ocean 17 
Crown, crest black; forehead, sides and back of neck, 
under, white; back, wings, tail dark-gray; bill yellow; 
legs, feet black; f., sim. Fish. 
68 White-fronted Tern (Southern), S, striata {frontalis), 
E.A., T., N.Z. c. shore 13 
Upper delicate-grny ; wing-quills grayish-black; forehead, 
side-neck, under white; bill, about eye, hind-neck black; 
f., sim. Small fish. 
69 Bridled Tern (Brown-winged, Panayan, Smaller-Sooty), 
S. anaestheta, tropical, sub-tropical seas. v.c. shore 14.5 
Upper light sooty-brown; forehead, line over eye, throat, 
under white; crown, nape, line from bill past eye 
black; bill, legs, feet black; like 70, but smaller; back, 
wings brown; f., sim. Fish. 
nests on the precipitous granite Albatross Rock, and be unable 
to land owing to the rough sea that was running. We waited 
a second and a third day, in the shelter of Chimney 
Corner, Three Hummocks Island, but finally had to 
depart with but a distant acquaintance with this fine bird. 
When they return to nest the succeeding year, the parents 
drive last year's brood off the island. Does the young live 
on its fat all through the cold, rough winter, or do the parents 
return at intervals to feed it? Some recent records by a French 
party on one of these lonely nesting islands show that in some 
cases, at least, the parents do feed the young at night during their 
long wait. The sitting bird is fed by her mate. He opens his 
mouth, and she inserts her bill, and chooses a dainty for herself. 
A Monograph of the Petrels, by F. Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., 
Pres. British Ornithologists' Union, was consulted for Order VIII. 
The birds of Order IX. are mainly shore birds. There are four 
chief kinds of these — Terns (Sea-Swallows), including Noddy 
Terns, Gulls, the remarkable northern Skimmers, which skim 
along the surface with the lengthened end of the lower mandible 
in the water, and the bold sea-pirates, Skuas. Fifty-seven Terns 
and Noddies are found throughout the world. Of these, twenty- 
one have been recorded from Australian waters. 
