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Order longipennes
Genus Sterna
Name Sterna forsteri
Date June 30, 1922
Set M. 65/2
Col No. 69/3
Local Kuma Vista Lake Kern Co. Calif.
Incl Commenced
Collyby Alden & Miller
Nest floating among duck weeds
Nim. nest better built than
Black Tern 6"-8" diam. however
the wind washed many nests
while others waded up and quite.
Nest and eggs wet. A small
scattering colony. It was found
that the floating rule for incb.
does not always hold for wet
eags.
Name Forster Tern
Date July 1, 1922
Set M. 67/3
Col No. 69
Local Kuma Vista Lake Kern Co. Calif.
Incl Heavy
Collyby Alden & Miller
Nest on floating nettle as usual
Ring in Black Tern nettle colony
Name Forster Terg
Date July 2nd 1922
Set M. 70/4
Incl Advanced
Col No. 69
Local Kuma Vista Lake
Collyby Alden & Miller (Present Airm R)
Nest old gube remod to Kern style
Rim big gube colony among ledge