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[B 689, C 565, R 686, C 797.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Greater part of the northern hemisphere and Africa. 
In North America chiefly east of the Plains, breeding from the 
Arctic coast, somewhat irregularly, to Florida, Texas, and Arizona, 
and wintering northward to Virginia. Also coast of Lower California. 
71. Sterna paradiszea Brin. 
Arctic Tern. 
Sterna paradise@a BRUNN. Orn. Bor. 1764, 46. 
[B 690, 693, C 567, 568, R 687, C 799.] 
Groce. Dist.— Northern hemisphere; in North America breeding 
from Massachusetts to the Arctic regions, and wintering southward 
to Virginia and California. 
72. Sterna dougalli Montac. 
Roseate Tern. 
Sterna dougalli Montac. Orn. Dict. Suppl. 1813, —. 
[B 692, C 569, R 688, C 800.] 
Groc. Dist.— Temperate and tropical regions; north on the 
Atlantic coast of North America to Massachusetts, and casually to 
Maine and Nova Scotia. 
73. Sterna aleutica Bairp. 
Aleutian Tern. 
Sterna aleutica Bairp, Tr. Chicago Ac. Nat. Sci. I. 1869, 321, 
ple gus fon r. ; 
[B—, C 572, R 689, C 803.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Coast of Alaska from Kadiak to Norton Sound. 
SuBGENUs STERNULA Bots. 
Sternula Botk, Isis, 1822, 563. Type, Sterna minuta LINN. 
