LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS 
[78.] White-winged Black Tern. H ydroehelidon leucoptera. 
Range. — Eastern Hemisphere, its addition to Amer- 
ican birds being made because of the accidental 
appearance of one bird in Wisconsin in 1873. They 
lest very abundantly among the lakes and marshes 
Greenish buff 
of southern Europe, placing their 
eggs the same as the American spe- 
cies, upon masses of decayed reeds 
and stalks. They lay three eggs 
which have a somewhat brighter 
appearance than the common Black 
Terns because of a somewhat light- 
er ground color. 
79- Noddy. Anous 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 the 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. 
Noddy 
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