CnRCECOCEPOALUS PHIL ADELPHIA— STERNA FOUSTEllI. G39 



CnRCECOCEPHALUS PHILADELPDIA. 



Boii:i|»ai-t4>'s Uiill. 



Sterna philadeljMa, Ord, Guthrie's Geog., 2(1 Am. cd., II, 1815, 319. 

 Chroecocephalns 2ihil<i(lilphia, Lawr., in Baird's Birds N. Am. 1858, 852.— Baird, 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. C70. 



Larits iMlade'phia, Gray, List. Br. Birds, 1863, 235.— CouES, Key, 1872, 310; 



Check List, 1873, No..55C. 

 Larus f ChrcecoccphalusJ Philadelphia, COTJES, Birds N.W., 1874, G55. 

 Not seen by its. 



List of specimens. 



430, " ? ad.; Bay of Sau Francisco, February 1, 18C8. 13J— 31 §-(?)— 8.1." (Pre- 

 sented by n. G. Parker.) 



Sterna regia. 



Roynl Torn. 



Sterna regia, Gambel, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., IV, 1848, 228.— Lawr., in Baird's 

 Birds N. Am., 1858, 859.— Baird, Cat. N. Am., B., 1859, No. 683.— CouES, 

 Key, 1872,319 ; Check List, 1873, No. 562. 



Thalasseus regim, Gambel, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., I, 2d ser., 1849, 228. 

 Sterna f Thalasseus J regia, CouES, Birds N.W., 1874, 669. 



This powerful Tern was more or less common in May at Washoe Lake 

 and near Pyramid Lake, in September at tlie niunboldt Marshes, and 

 among the marshes near Salt Lake City in June and July. 



Sterna forsteri. 



Forstor's Tern. 



Sterna forsteri, Nuttall, Man. Orn., II, 1834, 274 (foot-note). — Lawr., in Baird's 

 Birds N. Am., 1858, 862.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1S59, No. 091.— Colitis, 

 Key, 1872, 321; Check List, 1873, No. 5CG; Birds N.W., 1874, 676.- IIen- 

 SHAW, 1875, 486. 



Sterna havelli, Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 122, pi. 409, fig. 1 (= young). — 

 Lawr., in Baird's Birds N. Am., 1858, 861.— Bated, Cat. N. Am. r.inls, 

 1859, No. 086. 



Forster's Tern was very common in June at Sacramento, and tliroug-h- 

 out the summer in the vicinity of Pyramid, Ruby, and Franklin Lakes, and 



