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FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LONGIPENNES. 



LARIDAE. 



Me. — Rare summer visitor coastwise; not certainly known to 

 breed. Mav-Aiig. 31. 



N. H. — Formerly rare summer resident at Isles of Shoals. 



Mass. — Locally common summer resident coastwise. May 1- 

 Oct. 4. Eggs, May 20-July 30. 



R. I.— Common migrant and summer ^'isitor; not known to 

 nest. May-Oct. 



Conn. — Common migrant and local summer resident. Eggs, 

 June 20. 



38. Sterna antillarum (Lesson) Cones. 



Least tern; Little striker; Oyt. 



Sternula antillarum Less., Descr. mamm. et. ois., 1847, p. 256. 

 "Antilles. . . . principalement Guadeloupe." 



Sterna minuta Linne. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, vol. 7, 

 p. 119, pi. 439. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 23, fig. 12-14. 



Seacoasts and lakes; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Formerly Tare summer resident in Casco Bay. 



N. H. — Rare migrant: Hampton. 



Mass. — Uncommon summer resident, from Cape Cod south 

 (formerly at Ipswich); elsewhere now casual. (April 27) May 4- 

 Oct. Eggs, May 31- June 29. 



R. I. — - Now rare but formerly a more common summer visitor 

 coastwise. -Aug. 20. 



Conn. — Rare migrant and summer visitor, formerly common. 



'^O. Sterna fuscata Linne. 



Sooty tern; Egg-bird. 

 Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 228. "in Insula 



DOMINICENSI." 



