44 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Suscenus STERNA. 
[Sterna trudeati AUDUBON. Trudeau’s Tern. [68.] 
Sterna trudeaut AupDUBON, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, 1838, pl. 409, fig. 2. 
(Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey.) 
RANGE.— Coasts of southern South America. Breeds in Argen- 
tina; casual in Chile and Brazil; accidental on Long Island and at 
Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey.] 
Sterna férsteri NUTTALL. Forster’s Tern. [69.] 
Sterna forsteri NutTrauy, Manual Orn., II, 1834, 274. (Saskatchewan 
River.) 
RanceE.— North America. Breeds on interior lakes of California, 
southern Oregon, and Nevada, and from southwestern Saskatchewan 
and Manitoba south to northern Colorado, northern Nebraska, 
northeastern Illinois, and southern Ontario, and on coasts of Texas, 
Louisiana, and Virginia; winters from southern California, Gulf of 
Mexico, and South Carolina to southern Guatemala; in migration 
occurs on the Atlantic coast, casually as far north as Massachusetts; 
casual in Brazil. 
Sterna hirindo Linnaus. Common Tern. [70.] 
Sterna hirundo Linnzvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 1387. (Sweden.) 
Rance.— Northern Hemisphere, northern South America, and 
Africa. Breeds from Great Slave Lake, central Keewatin, and 
southern Ungava south to southwestern Saskatchewan, northern 
North Dakota, southern Wisconsin, northern Ohio, and North 
Carolina; winters from Florida to Brazil; casual in migration on 
Pacific coast from British Columbia to Lower California. In Eastern 
Hemisphere breeds in Europe and Asia and winters in India and 
southern Africa. 
Sterna paradiséa Brtnnicu. Arctic Tern. [71.] 
Sterna paradisea BriinnicH, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 46. (Christiansdée 
Island, Denmark.) 
RancE.— Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds from northern Alaska, 
