Crossword-Solution: LARID 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

FAMILY LARIDÆ (GULLS, TERNS, SKUAS) _SUB-FAMILY STERNINÆ_ Bill straight, rather slender; mandibles of about equal length.

ORDER GAVIÆ FAMILY LARIDÆ SUB-FAMILY STERNINÆ THE BLACK TERN HYDROCHELIDON NIGRA Bill black; feet purple-brown, the membrane short; head and neck black; upper parts lead-colour; under parts dark ash-grey; under tail-coverts white; tail not much forked, shorter than the wings; irides brown.

The _Huanu_,[128] consisting of the excrement of various descriptions of sea-birds, chiefly sea-mews, sea-ravens, divers, and _laridæ_, forms strata, sometimes of a greyish-brown, sometimes of a rusty red colour, which at some points attain a thickness of 120 feet.

The petrels (_Procellariidæ_) and the gulls (_Laridæ_) are among the greatest wanderers; but most of the species are confined to one or other of the great oceans, or to the arctic or antarctic seas, a few only being found with scarcely any variation over almost the whole globe.

Fresh-laid eggs of gulls, _Laridæ_: Perceptibly strong; cannot be relished unless in omelettes; yolks very dark; size and shape of our hen’s egg; shell dark, clay-colored ground, mottled.