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MARSH TERN. 
are clearly defined; through the eye a line of black passes down 
the neck for about an inch, reaching about a quarter of an inch 
before it; the bill is not so black as in the others; the legs and 
feet dull orange, smutted with brown or dusky; tips and edges 
of the primaries blackish; shafts white. 
This species breeds in the salt marshes, the female drops her 
eggs, generally three or four in number, on the dry drift grass, 
without the slightest appearance of a nest; they are of a green- 
ish olive, spotted with brown. 
A specimen of this Tern has been deposited in the Museum 
of this city. 
