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ous plumage, caught near Paget Quarry, on the south shore, on the 19th 



September, 1875. 



Genus Hydro chelidon, Boie. 



177. HydrocJielidon nigra, (Linn.) Boie. Black Tern. 



Sterna nigra, Liun., Mey. & Wolf, Temm. 



Sterna navia, Linn. 



Sterna fissipes, Linn., Schl. 



Lartts meruUnus, Scop. 



Sterna surinamensis, Gm. 



Sterna plumhea, Wils. 



Sydrochelidon nigra, Boie. 



Viralva nigra, Stoph. 



Anous i)hnnbea, Steph. 



Hydroclielidon fissipes, Gray, Bias., Degl. & Gerbe, Scl. & Sal v., CoueB. 



HydrocheUdon plumbea, Lawr. and otiier Am. authors. 



Pelodes stirinamensis. Gray. 



HydrocheUdon lariformis, Coues. 



"Sterna ccesia, Linn.," Gundl. 



Length, 9.25; wing, 8.25; tail, 3.75; bill, 1.10; tarsus, .68. 



Mob, — Europe, Palestine, and North Africa to the Nile. Across the 

 continent of North America, visiting West Indies and Spanish Main 

 on the one side, and going as far south as Peru and Chili on the Pacific 

 coast in winter (Saunders). 



Mr. Bartram obtained the only recorded example of this Tern in St. 

 George's Harbor in October, 1876, after a severe gale from the north- 

 west. It was in company with many other Terns of various species, 

 but only one other, S. Jluviatilis, was identified. 



Genus Angus, Leach. 



178. Anous stolidns (Linn.), Gray. Noddy Tern. 



Sterna stolida, Linn., Gm., Lath., Less., Bp., Nntt., Aud., Schl., Hart., Maxiili, 



Megalopterus stolidus, Boie, Bp., Keys. & Bias. 



Anous stolidns. Gray, Cab., Lawr., Scl., Coues, Scl. & Salv., Saunders. 



Anous niger, Steph., Eyt. 



Gavia leucoceps, Sw. 



Sterna pileata, Scop. 



Anas rousseaui, Hartl. 



Anous fuscatus et sjjadicea, Steph. 



Length, 16 ; wing, 10 to 10.50 ; tail, 6 ; bill, 1.75 ; tarsus, 1. 



Hab. — Eauges from the Gulf coast of North America to the shores of 

 Australia, throughout Polynesia, and occurs in fact in all tropical waters. 

 A straggler to the British seas (Saunders). 



A solitary example was killed near Ireland Island by Captain Tolcher, 

 Fifth-sixth Regiment, on the 12th September, 1854. 



