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lakes Michigan, Huron (Georgian Bay), on the north shore of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, and also on the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Caro- 

 lina, and Virginia. Winters from the coast of central California to Lower 

 California and western Mexico (Colima), and on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts 

 from South Carolina to Mexico. Casual in migration north to southern British 

 Columbia, the mouth of the Mackenzie River, and Newfoundland; and in the 

 Mississippi Valley. [Closely related races occur in Europe, etc.] 



Genus CHLIDONIAS Rafinesqxje. 



Chh'domns Rafinesque, Kentucky Gazette, n.s., I, No. 8, Feb. 21, 

 1822, 3, col. 5. Type, by monotypy, Sterna melanops Rafinesque = 

 Sterna surinamensis Gmelin. 



Chlidonias nigra surinamensis (Gmelin). Black Tern. [77.] 



Sterna surinamensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 604. Based on the 

 Surinam Tern Latham, General Synops., Ill, Pt. ii, 352. (in Surinam, 

 200 nonnunquam milliaria a littore.) 



Range. — Breeds in interior North America from central eastern Alaska, 

 Great Slave Lake, central Manitoba and Ontario south on inland lakes to 

 southern British Columbia, California, Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, northern 

 Missouri, and Tennessee; also to lake shores of northern Ohio, .northwestern 

 Pennsylvania and western New York. Winters from Surinam to Peru and 

 Chile; migrates mainly through the interior United States but occurs regularly 

 along the Atlantic coast in late summer and autumn though rarely in spring. 

 Casual in the Magdalen Islands, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New 

 Brunswick, Bermuda, the West Indies, and the Bahamas. [A closely allied 

 race occurs in Europe.] 



• Chlidonias leucoptera (Temminck). White-winged Tern. [78.] 



Sterna leucoptera Temminck, Manuel d'Orn., 1815 [1814], 483. (les bords 

 de la Mediterranee, etc. = Mediterranean Sea.) 



Range. — -Breeds in central and southern Europe from central Russia 

 and Bavaria (occasional) eastward to temperate Asia, more or less regularly to 

 Australia. In winter southward throughout Africa. Accidental at Lake 

 Koshkonong, Wisconsin (July 5, 1873),^ and on Barbados. 



Genus ANOtJS Stephens. 



Anoi'is Stephens, in Shaw, General Zoology, XIII, Pt. i, Feb. 18, 1826, 

 139. Type, by subs, desig., Anoiis niger Stephens = (Sierna stolida 

 Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



1 Brewer, Amer. Nat., VIII, 1874, 188. 



