18 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LONGIPENNES. 



LARIDAE. 



Sterna cantiaca Gmel. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, vol. 7, 

 p. 87, pi. 431. 



Seacoasts; nests on the ground. 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: Chatham, Aug., I860; Monomoy 

 Id., Oct. 2, 1888. 



34. Sterna forsteri Xuttall. 



Forster's tern. 



Xutt., Manual ornith. U. S. and Canada, 1834, vol. 2, p. 274. 

 Based onForster: "Churchill River," Hudson* Bay. Saunders, 

 Cat. birds British mus., 1896, vol. 25, p. 47. 



Sterna havel/ii Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, vol. 7, p. 103, 

 pi. 434. 



Marshes and sea coasts; nests in grassy marshes. 



Mass. — Rare fall migrant. Aug.-Oct. 2. 



35. Sterna hirundo Linne. 



Common tern; Mackerel gull; Medrake or Medrick; Red- 

 shank; Sea swallow; Summer gull; Wilson's tern. 



Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 137. "Europa." Chap- 

 man, Handb. birds east. Xo. Amer., 1895, p. 81, fig. 61, c; Audu- 

 bon, Birds of Amer., 1S44, vol. 7, p. 97, pi. 433. Egg, Capen, 

 1886, pi. 23, figs. 4, 5. 



Seacoasts ; nests on sandy or pebbly shores. 



Me. — Abundant summer resident coastwise. May 3-Sept. 2 

 (late Sept.). Eggs, late May- Aug. 19. 



N. H. — Common migrant coastwise, casual inland; formerly 

 summer resident at Isles of Shoals. May; Aug.-Sept. 



Vt. — Rare visitor: Bennington, May 30, 1907; St. Albans. 



