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also along Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States, locally, from 

 New Jersey (Seven Mile Beach) and Virginia (Cobbs Island, etc.), 

 to Texas (Galveston Bay ; Fort Brown) ; casual northward to Massa- 

 chusetts (Ipswich Beach, Sept., 1870); wintering from southern 

 California, Gulf coast, and coast of South Carolina southward to 

 Guatemala (Lake of Duenas) and along Pacific coast to Sinaloa 

 (Mazatlan, Oct. to April) and Oaxaca (San Mateo; Ventosa Bay, 

 Dec, Feb.); accidental off coast of Brazil (off Pernambuco). 



Sterna hirundo (Variety) Forster, Philos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 421 (Churchill 

 River?, Hudson Bay). 



[Sterna hirundo] 0. Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 808 (cites Sterna hirundo, 

 var. Forster). 



Sterna hirundo (not of Linnaeus) Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., 

 ii, 1831, 412 (Saskatchewan River). 



Sterna forsteri Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 274, 

 footnote (Saskatchewan River; based on S. hirundo Swainson and Richard- 

 son). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., v, 1852, 222 (California; crit.); viii, 

 1867, 299 (vicinity New York City); in Bakd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 862; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 318 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Oct. 

 to April); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 51 (San Mateo and Ventosa Bay, 

 Oaxaca, Dec, Feb.). — Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 691.— Coues, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 544 (monogr.); 1866, 99 (Arizona); 1871, 

 44 (Fort Macon, North Carolina); Ibis, 1864, 390 (Lake of Dueiias, Guate- 

 mala); Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 308 (New England); Check List, 1873, 

 no. 566; 2d ed., 1882, no. 798; Birds Northwest, 1874, 676.— Schlegel, 

 Mus. Pays-Bas., vi, no. 24 (Sternae), 1864, 19.— Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 199 

 (Dueuas, Guatemala).— Elliot, New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, i, 1869, Introd. 

 (tail figured). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 569 (mon- 

 ogr.). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 12 (migrant). — Merriam, Sixth Am. Rep. 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1873, 704 (Marsh Creek, Idaho, breeding).— Hbn- 

 shaw, Ann. Lye. N. Y. xi, 1875, 13 (marshes of Great Salt Lake, Utah, breed- 

 ing); Rep. Zool. Exped. lOOthMerid., 1875, 486 (Utah Lake, Utah, breeding). — 

 Saunders, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, 65 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., XXV, 1896, 46 (Lake of Duenas, Guatemala, Oct. 28; Tehuantepec> 

 Oaxaca, Feb.; at sea 200-300 miles off Pernambuco, Brazil, etc.). — ^Jouy, 

 Field and Forest, 1877, 181 (District Columbia). — Ridgway, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., V, 1873, 173 (Great Salt Lake, Utah, breeding); Orn. Fortieth Parallel, 



1877, 639 (Sacramento, California, June; Pyramid, Ruby, and Franklin 

 Lakes and Humboldt marshes, Nevada, breeding; Great Salt Lake, Utah, 

 breeding); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 208; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 685.— Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 65 

 (Galveston, Texas, breeding; habits). — Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 



1878, 172 (Fort Brown, Texas, breeding; descr. nest and eggs). — Roberts 

 and Benner, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 20 (Grant and Traverse Coun- 

 ties, Minnesota, breeding). — Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 

 126 (Cobbs Island, Virginia, breeding); Auk, vi, 1889, 66 (near Chatham, 

 Massachusetts, Oct. 2, 1888; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, no. 1, 1902, 25 

 (San Jose del Cabo, Lower California, Dec. 15 to May 17). — Nehrling, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 225 (coast of s. e. Texas, breeding).- 

 Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v. 1883, 546 (Cape San Lucas district, 

 Lower California). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds North 

 Am., ii, 1884, 292.— Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 18 (Colorado, up to 6,000 ft.).— 



