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Order Longipennes
Terms
Name Least Tern
Date June 18/423
Set m. 54/3 55/3 complete opportunity
54/2 74
Local. Playa del Rey L.A. Calif.
Nest. fresh
Coll. by Alden M.Willis
Nest on ground slight depression
54/3 Nest near snow plow set 53/3 see data. A small colony of perhaps
20 pair many not left nesting.
N Least Tern
Date June 18 1923
Set m. 56/2
growths 74
Local Playa del Rey L.A. Calif.
Nest fresh
Coll by Alden M.Willis
Nest in small isolated colony of
4 pair. Eggs in footprint on mud
flat (some salicornia). Egg had apparently
been blooded at one time by the tide.
Name Sterna forsteri
Date July 20 1922
Set m. 99/5
growths /3 69
Local Burns Vista Lake Kim Co Calif
Nest fresh
Coll by Alden M.Willis Dr. D.Moray and
Nest 6-8" across well built
mud of dry notthing
floating among weeds.