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in southern Asia and Africa; in migration on the Pacific coast from southern 

 British Columbia (including the interior) to southern Lower California. Ac- 

 cidental in Oklahoma. [A closely allied race occurs in central Asia.] 



Sterna paradisaea Brijnnich. Arctic Tern. [71.] 



Sterna Paradisaea BRtJNNiCH, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 46. (E Christiansoe = 

 Christiansoe Island, Denmark.) 



Range.^ — Breeds from northern Alaska east to Baffin Island, northern 

 Ellesmere Island, and northern Greenland, south to the Commander and 

 Aleutian islands, southeastern Alaska, northern British Columbia, Lower Slave 

 River, northern Manitoba, Maine, and Massachusetts, and in the entire Arctic 

 regions of Europe and Asia. Winters in the Antarctic Ocean, south to lat. 74°; 

 in migration, on the Pacific coast south to southern California, and on the 

 Atlantic coast south to New York (Long Island) and on the coasts of Brazil, 

 Peru, Chile, France, and South Africa (Nigeria and Natal) . Accidental in the 

 interior of the United States- and in Hawaii. 



Sterna dougalli dougalli Montagu. Roseate Tern. [72.] 



Sterna Dougallii Montagu, Suppl. Orn. Diet., 1813, not paged, see under 

 Tern, Roseate (with plate), (the Cumbrey Islands in Firth of Clyde 

 [Scotland].) 



Range. — Breeds locally on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, and on the coasts of 

 Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey (rarely), and Virginia (formerly Maine to 

 Florida), and in Bermuda, the Bahamas, Lesser Antilles, and from the Dry 

 Tortugas to Venezuela and British Honduras; also in Europe from lat. 57° N- 

 to the Mediterranean Sea, and on the coasts of Africa, Ceylon, and southern 

 China. Winters from Louisiana (occasionally), southern Mexico, and the 

 Bahamas to Brazil. Accidental in Ohio, Indiana, and western New York. 

 [Allied races occur in Australia and in the Indian Ocean.] 



Sterna aleutica Baird. Aleutian Tern. [73.] 



Sterna aleutica Baird, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, Pt. ii, 1869, 321 (pi. 31, 

 fig. 1). (Kadiak [= Kodiak Island, Alaska].) 



. Range.— Breeds on two small islands in Norton Sound, on Kodiak Island, 

 and near Yakutat, Alaska, and occurs on the Bering Sea coast of Siberia. 

 South in winter to Japan. 



Sterna fuscata fuscata Linnaeus. Eastern Sooty Tern. [75.] 



Sterna fuscata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 228. Based on 

 L'Hirondelle-de-mer Brune, Sterna fusca Brisson, Orn., VI, 220. (in 

 Insula Dominicensi = Santo Domingo, West Indies.) 



Range. — ^Breeds in America from the Dry Tortugas, Bahamas, West Indies, 

 and tropical islands of the Atlantic to Venezuela and west to British Honduras, 



