ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
THE GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES
The Swallow-tailed Gull
(Creagrns furcatus), sometimes placed in the last mentioned genus, though really very distinct, is very much larger, reaching a maximum length of twenty-three inches. It is found on the Pacific coast of South America and in the Galapagos Islands, where it was observed breeding abundantly on a small islet lying near the island of Wenman by Messrs. Snod-grass and Heller, who state that it deposits its single egg only on the bare rock of the cliffs, without constructing a nest of any sort.
It is, they say, an extremely noisy species, its notes being varied from shrill, elongated cries to harsh guttural sounds, uttered while on the rocks as well as when on the wing.
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