BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 523 



of Aruba and Bonaire, Dutch West Indies, Trinidad, Margarita 

 Island, off Venezuela, and coast of northeastern Brazil (Piauhy, etc.) ; 

 occurs occasionally in winter on coast of western and southwestern 

 Africa. 



[Steriui] minuta (not of Linnaeus) Latham, Index Om., ii, 1790, 809, part 

 (America). 



Sterna minuta Wilson, Am. Oru., vii, 1818, 80, pi. 60, Hg. 2. — -Bonapakte, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1828, 355.— Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Om., ii, 1832, 

 371.— Audubon, Om. Biog., iv, 1838, 175, pi. 319; Synopsis, 1839, 321; 

 Birds Am., 8vo. ed., vii, 1844, 119, pi. 439.— Giraud, Birds Long Island, 1844, 

 350. — Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 123. — Putnam, Proc. Essex 

 Inst., i, 1856, 221 (Massachusetts). — Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, 74 (Nagua River, 

 Fantee, w. Africa). 



S[terna] minuta Bonaparte, Obs. Nomeucl. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [208]. 



Sterna argentea (not of Maximilian, 1820) Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 

 Water Birds, 1834, 280.— Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 61.— 

 GossE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 437.^Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 207 

 (Jamaica). — Leotaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 545. 



(?) Sternula bailloni Boie, Isis, 1844, 183 (Newfoundland). 



Stemula aatillarum Lesson, Compl. Oeuvres Buffon, xx, or Descr. Mam. et 

 Ois., 1847, 256 (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles; = young). — Gundlach, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1871, 294 (Cuba). 



Sternula antillarum antillarum Oberholser, Auk, xxxiv, April, 1917, 199. 



Sterna antillarum Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 552 (monogr.); Ibis, 

 1864, 390 (Glovers Reef, Brit. Honduras; crit.); Proc. Evssex Inst., v, 1868, 

 308 (New England, breeding); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1871, 45 (Fort 

 Macon, North Carolina, breeding); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xii, 1868, 126 

 (South Carolina). — Salvin, Ibis, 1864, 384 (Long Cay, Brit. Honduras); 

 1866, 199 (Long Cay and Grassy Cay, Brit. Honduras; crit.). — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1864, 106 (Sombrero, Lesser Antilles); Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 68 (Dominica).— Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1875, 391 

 (Cuba; habits); Anal. Soe. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 412 (Porto Rico).— 

 Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 98 (Santo Domingo). — Sclater 

 andSALVi.N, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 571 (monogr.). — Saunders, Proc. 

 Zool. Soe. Lond., 1876, 661, part (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. ^lus., xxv, 

 1896, 122, part (Ipsmch, Massachusetts, June, July; Nantucket, Massachu- 

 setts; Bone Island and Cobbs Island, Virginia, June, July; Capers Island, 

 South Carolina; Brownsville and Corpus Christi, Texas, May; Antigua; 

 Barbados; Venezuela; Long Cay, Glovers Reef, Brit. Honduras; Nagua 

 River, Fantee, w. Africa). — Merrill (J. C), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 

 172 (Fort Brown, Texas, breeding).— Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 

 227 (Long Beach, New Jersey, breeding); Auk, vii, 1890, 306 (Dry Tortugas, 

 Florida, breeding).— Ridg way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880 (Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds), 208, part; Norn. N. Am. Bii-ds, 1881, no. 690, part.— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am., ii, 1884, 309, part. — Cory, 

 Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 179; Auk, v, 1888, 79 (West Indian localities 

 and references); Birds West Ind., 1889, 280; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 83 

 (.\baco. New Providence, Andros, Great Inagua, and Cay Sal islands, 

 Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica; Haiti: Porto Rico; St. Bartholomew; Antigua; 

 Guadeloupe; Dominica; Barbados). — Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 289 (s. e. 

 South Dakota, breeding). — Goss, .Vuk, iii, 1886, 115 (Kansas, breeding); 

 Birds Kansas, 1886, 3.— Ralph and Bagg, Trans. Oneida Hist. Soc., iii. 



