STERNA. 
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Var. C. Ground colour light brown, with a largo coalesced patch 
of brownish-black on the thicker end; length 2'.3 x 1'58 inches. 
Var. D. Ground colour light reddish-buff heavily blotched all 
over the surface of the shell with dark blackish-red markings; 
length 2'29 x 1*57 inches. 
These eggs were taken in the month of July. 
llab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and South-West 
Australia, South Coast of New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 
STERNA ANGLICA, Mont. 
(Gelochelidon macrotarsa, Gould.) 
Long-legged Tern. 
Gould, ITandbk. Bds. Ausl., Vol. ii., sp. 608, p. 403. 
This species is found on the eastern and south-eastern portions 
of Australia, it likewise ranges very far inland, where it resorts 
to breed. It formerly bred in large colonies near the shores of 
Lake Rolac in Victoria, from whence numerous specimens were 
obtained. Mr. K. H. Bennett also found them breeding in the 
interior of New South Wales; from his MSS. I extract the following: 
“ On two occasions (1870 and 1872) I have known S. anglica, 
to breed in the Ivanhoe district. In both instances the sites 
chosen were similar, viz., a sandy bank rising - some two or throe 
feet above the surrounding plain, and thickly covered with dwarf 
saltbush ; these breeding places were about forty miles apai-t, in 
one case close to a wide sheet of water, and in the other quite 
two miles away from the nearest water. At both places hundreds 
of the birds were breeding, and the eggs, two in number for 
a sitting, wei - e deposited on the bare ground, and so closely 
together that care was required when walking so as not to step 
upon them,” 
