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
Swallow-tailed Gulls.
The last members of the subfamily to be noticed are the Swallow-tailed or Forked-tailed Gulls, the two species of which are known at once by their deeply forked tails, in which feature they approach the Terns.
The smaller, known as Sabine's Gull (Xema sabinii), is only thirteen or fourteen inches long, and has the head and neck uniform lead-colored, the mantle bluish gray, while the remainder of the plumage with the exception of a black collar is pure white.
It is a native of Arctic America and eastern Siberia, coming south in winter to Peru and the Great Lakes in the interior of North America. It breeds on the tundras of Siberia, on islands in the Arctic Ocean, and at various points in Alaska, making a grass-lined nest in depressions in the moss.
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