270 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 



States record of winteriug (Cones). Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Anda- 

 man Islands, Ceylon, Malayan Islands, west coast of Australia. (Saun- 

 ders.) 



The same remarks apply, unfortunately, to this species as to the pre- 

 ceding, it being no longer found, except, perhaps, as an autumn strag- 

 gler, in the islands. At one time it used to breed in considerable num- 

 bers on Gurnet Head Kock (sometimes called the Black Eock). Mr. 

 Hurdis says : " On this rock, difficult of access on account of the ocean 

 swell, as many as 40 or 50 of this elegant species of Tern have been 

 observed in the middle of June, and from the circumstance of both eggs 

 and young having been obtained there on the 1st August, I conclude 

 that it must rear two broods in the season." 



Both species were called "Eedshanks" by the Bermudians. 



176. Sterna fuliginosa, Gm. Sooty Tern. 



Sterna fulif/mosa, Gm., Lath., Wils., Bp., Nutt., Aucl., Cab., Lawr., Hartl., 



Dress., Sund., Hart., Saunders. 

 Sterna (Onijchoprton) fnliginosa, Gray. 

 Sterna {HaJiplanes) fuJiginosa, Bias. 

 Sterna (Haliplana) fuUginosa, Coues. 

 Onychoprion fnliginosa, Wagl., Gould, Scl., Scl. tfe Salv. 

 Haliplana fuliginosa, Wagl., Bj)., Coues, Salv., Gundl., Lawr., AUen. 

 Sterna serrata, Forst. 

 Hydrochelidon fuliginosum, Bp., Gosse. 

 Sterna guttata, Forst. 

 Anous Vherminieri, Less. 

 Sterna gouldii, Reicli. 

 Sterna luctuosa, Phil. & Laudb. 

 Thalassipara infuscata, Gray. 

 Sterna fuliginosa var. crissalis, Bd., apud Lawr. 



Length, 1G.50; wing, 12; tail, 7 to 7.50; bill, 1.80; tarsus, 1. 



Rah. — Throughout the warmer portions of the world (Saunders). 



Of rare occurrence. Colonel Wedderburn says: "Dr. Cole shot a 

 specimen of this Tern in October, 184G. During the whole time I was 

 quartered in Bermuda I only saw one of these birds, and that in the 

 year 1848. I was walking on the sand-hills, and saw a bird apparently 

 dead on the ground. I put down my gun, and picked the bird up, and 

 ' was just putting him carefully in paper when my prize thought fit to 

 come to life and flew away, taking me so much by surprise that I never 

 thought of using my gun. It was a most beautiful specimen, and must 

 have been driven on shore by some heavy gale." Mr. Hurdis records 

 that a third example was found in an exhausted state in Devonshire 

 parish, on the 23d October, 1854, after a severe gale the previous day. 

 Lieutenant Deuison, Eoyal Engineers, received a young male in curl- 



