GIANT TERNS. 
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illed Tern nests with greater or less frequency throughout the 
1 region and occurs accidentally in more, northern 
calities, though it breeds regularly on the western coast of 
enmark and the island of Sylt. Its range extends through 
China, whence it is found through 
conr' ^ to Australia, breeding in the latter 
from'^'^M*^’ T America it occurs on the eastern side 
R pr,. ki ■ ^'1 J southwards, reaching to the Argentine 
coast of"GumemaIa°‘'"''""^ 
and^crusmc? In?it°a/,n frogs, 
season Mr. Saundprc ^ ^ insects. During the breeding 
c/ie-a/i, but at other tinf^^ syllables 
like a Gull. “ ^ ® ^ laughing af-af-af 
anIslarM ^ of Gull-billed Terns on 
were either a natifnl Minor. The nests 
slight hollow rmri K oP’^oss'on in the sand, or consisted of a 
seaweed or dead ^ ^ birds themselves, with a few bits of 
eo or dead grass as an apology for a nest. 
mediate in^rha^a^t sometimes three in number, and inter- 
The general Souris f"’"f" of Gulls and 1 rerns. 
olive-greenish tinae tK ^ ^ stone-buff, occasionally with an 
over the esg in ®Pols never very large and distributed 
blotches of any size" 'pi^'^oal profusion and seldom forming 
and almost as much in p^‘ .ooderlying markings are as large 
sometimes beincr pvpn as the dark overlying ones, 
r-8-2-s inches; dia^"^^5:^.5^^^''oot than the latter," Axis, 
terns, genus hydroprogne. 
J ropi'og7ie, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 91 (1829). 
. "PyPS> H. caspia (Pall.). 
cosmopoHtan^ranae^^^^U-^^^'^-^y a single species, of nearly 
blood-red bill um ' distinguished by its large size and 
o t^iu. 1 he outer tail-feathers are pointed, Snd exceed 
