OOLOGICAL COLLECTION
of
Griffing Bancroft
and
Griffing Bancroft Jr.

Elegant Tern
A.O.U. No. 66

Thalasseus
elegans

Incubation fresh. Eggs 1-6

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