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Breeding in interior and western districts of United States and 

 Canada, northward to soutlivvestern British Columbia, Mackenzie 

 (Great Slave Lake) and southern Keewatin, eastward to eastern 

 Ontario (Lansdowne; Kingston; near Toronto; Point Pelee) and 

 western Pennsylvania (C(Hlar Point, Erie County), southward to 

 southern California (Riverside County), Nevada, Utah, Colorado, 

 Kansas, northern Missouri, northern Illinois, and northern Ohio; 

 migrating southward over Mexico and Central America to Dutch 

 Guiana (Surinam), Peru (Callao Bay), and Chile; occasional during 

 fall migration along or near Atlantic coast, from Nova Scotia, Prince 

 Edward Island, and Maine southward, and in West Indies (Cuba; 

 Jam.aica; Porto Rico) and Bermudas; accidental (?) in Yukon Val- 

 ley, Alaska (Fort Yukon). 



[Sterna] surinamensis Gmelix. Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 604 (Surinam; based on 

 VHirondelle de Mer: la gran espece Fermin, Descr. Surinam, ii, 1769. 187; 

 Surinam Tern Latham, Gen. Synop. Bii'ds, iii, pt. 2, 1785, 352). — Latham, 

 Index Orn., ii, 1790, 804. 



Sterna surinamensis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 177. 



Hydrochelidon surinamensis Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxv, 1896, 20. — 

 Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif., no. 3, 1902, 14 (California range).— Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, BioL Centr.-Am., Aves., iii, 1903, 398. — Carriker, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 414 (Costa Rica). 



[Hydrochelidon] surinamensis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 773. — Gray, 

 Hand-list, iii, 1871, 122, no. 11074.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 134.— Forbes 

 and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 53. 



Hydrochelidon lariformis surinamensis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 

 Aug. 24, 1880 (Cat. N. Am. Birds), 208; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 693. 



Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, June 5, 

 1882, 40. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed., 

 1895, no. 77; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 47. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water 

 Birds N. Am., ii, 1884, 318.— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 

 1886, 179 (Laguna de San Baltazar and Laguna de Chapulco, Puebla). — 

 Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 60 (Fort Yukon, breeding). — 

 Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 79 (West Indian localities and references); Birds West 

 Ind., 1889, 280; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 83 (Cuba; Jamaica; Porto Rico).— 

 Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 470 (Manitoba, breeding; 

 habits; etc.). — Hitchcock, Auk, ix, 1892, 71 (Prince Edward Island, Sept. 

 13, 1887).— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 101 (Corpus Christi, 

 Texas). — Clarke, Auk, xiv, 1897, 411 (Lansdowne and Kingston, Ontario, 

 T)r(>c'ding). -Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoo!., xli, no. 1, 1902, 2G (San 

 Jose del Cabo, Lower California, Sept. 6, 17). — Taverner and Swales, 

 Wilson Bull., no. 59, 1907, 51 (Point Pelee, Ontario, common summer 

 resident). — Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 27, 1908, 274 (breeding n. 

 to Great Slave Lake). — Kermode, Provincial Mus., 1909, 25 (Sumas, 

 Okanagan Lake, Burrard Inlet, Fraser River, and interior Brit. Colum- 

 bia). — Jones, Wilson Bull., xxi, 1909, 71 (Cedar Point, Erie Co. Penn- 

 sylvania, breeding). — Philipp, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 313 (Pamlico Sound, 

 North Carolina, 2 specs.. June 25). — Fleming, Auk, xxx, 1913, 225 (near 

 Toronto, Ontario, breeding). — Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif., no. 11, 1915, 25 

 (California: breeding locally s. to Riverside Co.).— Wetmore. Bull. 326, 

 C. S. Dept. Agric, 1916, 46 (Porto Rico, 1 record). 



