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30-71-( 799). Sterna paradissx'a Brunn. Arctic Tern. 



"Not a common migrant" ( Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); '•south to New York'' 

 (Jordan ); "sometimes breeds at Lake Koshkonong, Wis.'' (Prof. Ludwig Kumlein ). 



Roseate Tern. 



31-72-(800). Sterna doiigalli i¥o?ifagf. Roseate Tern. 



Rare ; probably a straggler ; Lake Michigan ; " occasional visitor'' ( Gibbs' Birds of 

 Michigan ); one specimen recorded in catalogue of the Birds of Michigan in the museum 

 of Kent Scientific Institute at Grand Rapids, by E. L. Moseley ; Prof. Smith shot two 

 from a flock of five, in Hillsdale, in the spring of 1892 " (P. M. Falkner ); " common on 

 Lake Erie and Raisin River " ( Jerome Trombley ); " probable summer resident " ( Dr. 

 J. B. Steere ). 



32-74-(801). Sterna autillarum Less. Least Tern. 



Given in Gibbs' Birds of Michigan ; O. B. Warren tells me there is one in Albion 

 College museum, taken near Albion ; •' reported as a summer resident in Norther Indi- 

 ana"' ( Butler's Birds of Indiana); "have a set of eggs taken on Mitchell's Bay, Lake 

 St. Clair" ( W\ A. Oldfield); "certainly breeds at St. Clair Flats"' (Dr. W. C. 

 Brownell ). 



33-75-(804:). Sterna fnliginosa Qmel. Sooty Tern. 



Dr. G. W. Topping of DeWitt, is authority for one having been taken near DeW^itt 

 in the spring of 1880. Coues says " along the Atlantic coast ;'" Ridgway says " north 

 to Carolinas, casually to New England ;'' if taken in Michigan its occurrence was 

 doubtless a rare accident. 



34-7 7-( 306). 



tailed Tern 



Genus HYDROOHELIDON Boie. 



Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis Omel. 



Black Tern ; Short- 



Abundant; spring and summer ; " Hillsdale Co." (A. H. Boies); "have shot them as 

 they flew over at Port Sanilac " ( W. A. Oldfield ); " Mackinac Island " where several 

 were seen by Dr. M. Gibbs ( S. E. White ); taken at St. Clair Flats by W. H. Collins 

 ( Bull. Nutt. O. Club, Vol. V, p. 61); •' rare at Bay City, probably breeds however, in the 

 surrounding marshes. Observed at Heisterman's Island and at St. Clair Flats " ( N. 

 A.Eddy); " common on Lake Erie and Raisin River '' (Jerome Trombley); "nests on 



