OLOGICAL COLLECTION
of
Griffing Bancroft
and
Griffing Bancroft Jr.

Elegant Tern
A.O.U. No. 66

Thalasseus
elegans

Incubation fresh. Eggs 1

Taken on Isla Raza in the Gulf of California Mexico
April 17, 1925.

There were three large colonies on this island ag-
gregating perhaps ten thousand birds. The eggs were laid
on the bare sand as close together as the birds could com-
fortably set. The endless coloring seems to be connected
with the danger from the Heerrman Gull which always nests
around tern colonies.

Personally collected

WALTER RAINE
30 WAVERLEY RD.
KEW BEACH.
TORONTO, CANADA

ORN.E.00301

1292.00