BIBDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 481 



Nearly cosmopolitan, but absent from colder regions; in America 

 breeds northward to coast of Virginia (Cobbs Island) — ^formerly to 

 New Jersey (Seven Mile Beach; Cape May), and along Gulf coast 

 from Florida to Texas (Padre Island; Galveston Bay; Fort Brown), 

 also in Bahamas, in Cuba, and on island of Mexiana, at mouth of 

 Amazon River; accidental northward to Massachusetts (Ipswich, 

 Sept., 1871), Maine (near Portland, March, 1885,) New Brunswick 

 (Grand Menan, Aug., 1879), Ohio, and northeastern Illinois (near 

 Chicago, rare straggler) ; ranges southward along Gulf, Caribbean, 

 and Atlantic coasts to Brazil (Mexiana Island, breeding; Sao Paulo) 

 and Argentina (estuary of Rio de la Plata; Bahia Blanca; Estancia 

 Espartilla; Ranches; Santa Elena, Oct.; Barracas al Sud; Luiconia); 

 occurs also on Pacific coast of Oaxaca (Gulf of Tehuantepec; San 

 Mateo) and Guatemala (Chiapam), and in Ecuador (Vaqueria); in 

 Eastern Hemisphere northward to about lat. 55° N., from British 

 Islands to eastern Siberia, southern China, etc., southward to northern 

 Africa, southern Arabia, India, Ceylon, Java, Australia, and Tas- 

 mania. 



Sterna nilotica Linn^us, in Haeselquist, Reis. Palast., 1762, 325 (River Nile, 

 near Cairo, Egypt; not considered binomial). 



[Sterna] nilotica Gmelin, Syet. Nat., i, p. ii, 1789, 606. — Latham, Index Orn., ii, 

 1790, 806 (Egy-pt).— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 119, no. ]1040. 



Sterna nilotica Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 166. — Hume, 

 Stray Feath., i, 1873, 281 (Sind, India); Nests and eggs Indian Birds, 1875, 

 648. — Adam, Stray Feath., i, 1873, 403 (Sambur Lake, India, winter. — 

 Butler, Styay Feathers, iv, 1876, 31 (n. Guzerat, India). — Armstrong, Stray 

 Feath., iv, 1876, 351 (Irawaddy, India). — Reichenow, Syst. Verz. Vog. 

 Deutschl, 1889, 61; Vog. Deutsch Ost-Afr., 1894, 21 (Lake Victoria 

 Nyanza). — Frivaldsky, Av. Hung., 1891, 179. — Madarasz, Ausst. Ung. 

 Vogelf., 1891, 120.— Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb., 1891, 240. 



Lar[opis] nilotica Wagler, Isis, 1832, 1225. 



Gelochelidon nilotica Stejneger, Auk, i, Oct., 1884, 366. — ^American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 63; 3rd ed., 

 1910, p. 42.— Salvadori, Ucc. Itel., 1887, 279.— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 76 

 (West Indian localities and references; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 277; 

 Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 82 (New Providence, Long Island, Miraporvos, 

 and Great Inagua, Bahamas; Cuba; Barbados). — (?) Pindar, Auk, vi, 1889, 

 311 (Fulton Co., Kentucky, summer resident '^). — Shick, Auk, vii, 1890, 

 327 (Seven Mile Beach, New Jersey, breeding). — Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1892, 101 (Corpus Christi, Texas, breeding). — Beyer, Proc. 

 Louis. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 86 (coast Louisiana, breeding). — Hartert, 

 Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 604 (near Vaqueria, n. w. Ecuador, Sept.). — Allen 

 (G. M.), Auk, XXV, 1908, 234 (near Portland, Maine, March, 1885). — Dabbene, 

 Orn. Argentina, 1910, 210 (estuary of Rio de la Plata; Estancia EspartiUa, 

 Buenos Aires). 



Gelochelidon nilotica nilotica Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 1912, 

 330 (Europe; n. Africa in winter). 



o Extremely doubtful. 

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