CLARK: LESSER ANTILLEAN BIRDS. 
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Measurements. 
lex. 
Locality. 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Culmen. 
Depth 
of Bill. 
Tarsus. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
$ 
Union Island, Grenadines 
293 
120 
37 
11 
43 
$ 
ll u u 
300 
120 
37 
10 
44 
$ 
St. Mary’s, Ga. 
345 
130 
42 
12 
53 
$ 
u u 
343 
141 
40 
12 
52 
$ 
Little Gaulding Key, Bahamas 
315 
120 
38 
12 
47 
$ 
Anastasia Island, Fla. 
350 
130 
42 
12 
50 
Gelochelidon nilotica (Hasselq.). Gull-billed Tern. — 
This is a rare visitor to these islands. Col. Feilden obtained two 
specimens at Barbados, one killed October 6, 1888, and the other on 
the following day. There are no other records. 
Sterna maxima Bodd. Royal Tern. — The Royal Tern is 
found rather sparingly along the leeward coast of St. Vincent, 
throughout the Grenadines, and about Grenada, being rather more 
numerous about Barrouallie in St. Vincent, the Tobago Keys and 
the southern part of Carriacou in the Grenadines, and Grenville in 
Grenada, than at other points. 
The eggs are three in number, laid on the ground in sandy 
places; white or greenish buff in color, blotched with brown of 
different shades, especially toward the larger end. 
Sterna dougalli gracilis (Gould). Carreot ; Roseate Tern. 
— The resident West Indian Roseate Terns appear to have the bill 
with more or less red at the base instead of wholly black as in more 
northern birds, so I have referred them provisionally to Gould’s A. 
gracilis. Mr. Saunders (Proc. zool soc. London, p. 652, 1876) gives 
an interesting account of the variations in the color of the bill in 
this species, and says that all the birds he has seen with the red bill 
have been from tropical localities. Gould’s type came from Aus¬ 
tralia. 
The Roseate Tern is seen rather rarely about the leeward coast 
of St. Vincent, but is more common about Grenada. It is of fairly 
common occurrence in the Grenadines, breeding, among other places, 
at Frigate Island and Rose Rock near Carriacou. Formerly it bred 
in numbers at Isle Jaques Adam near the town of Hillsborough, 
but for some reason has of late years deserted this locality. 
The nest is made on the ground in sandy places. It is composed 
of sticks, dry weeds, etc. The eggs are three or four, varying from 
