vo THE’ NATURAL HISTORY 
Gog pene 3 18 sinothier Tern that feeds moftly on ine 
fects. Terns of this kind are not very noify. 
- They lay their eggs in tufts of grafs or mofs, upon 
hillocks furrounded with water, or on the banks’; 
they conect a few bents, and make a flight neft : 
they fit feventeen days on their eggs, which all 
hatch the fame day. ie 8 
Gexvs aa. > ROO C HO'P: 8. 
| Tur SKIMMER, on. CUT-WATER. 
The bill is much cet it is flraight; the upper 
~— mandible is much the thorter 3 the lower feems as though | 
cut off at the end. 
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\ROM the ftrange form of its beak, the 
- Skimmer can neither bite with the fide, 
gather any thing beforeit, or peck with the point, 
the lower mandible is fo much longer than the 

upper, which only falls upon it as a razor on its 
handle ; fo that the bird, in erder to feed itfelf, is 
cae obliged 
