ORDER LONGIPENNES. 45 
Melville Island, and northern Greenland, south to Commander and 
Aleutian islands, northern British Columbia, Great Slave Lake, 
central Keewatin, Maine, and (formerly) Massachusetts, and in 
entire Arctic regions of Europe and Asia; winters in Antarctic Ocean, 
south to latitude 74°; in migration, Pacific coast south to southern 
California, and Atlantic coast south to Long Island; accidental in 
Colorado. 
Sterna dotigalli Monracu. Roseate Tern. [72.] 
Sterna dougalli Montacu, Suppl. Orn. Dict., 1813, text and plate. (The 
Cumbres, in Firth of Clyde, Scotland.) 
RancE.— Temperate and tropical regions. Breeds locally from 
Sable Island to Long Island and from the Bahamas to Lesser Antilles 
and Venezuela; formerly from Maine to Florida; rare migrant in 
Central America; winters from the Bahamas to Brazil; accidental in 
Ohio; occurs on the coasts of a large part of the Eastern Hemisphere. 
Sterna alettica Barrp. Aleutian Tern. [73.] 
Sterna aleutica Barn, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., I, 1869, 321, pl. 31, fig. 1. 
(Kadiak Island, Alaska.) 
RanGce.— North Pacific. Breeds from Norton Sound to Kadiak 
Island, and occurs on Bering Sea coast of Siberia; south in winter to 
Japan. 
Suscenus STERNULA Bolz. 
Sternula Bor, Isis, X, 1822, 563. Type, by monotypy, Sterna minuta 
Linn2us = S. albifrons Pauas. 
Sterna antillarum (Lesson). Least Tern. [74.] 
Sternula antillarum Lesson, Compl. Giuvres Buffon, XX, 1847, 256. 
(Guadeloupe Island, West Indies.) 
RaNncE.— Tropical and temperate America. Breeds on coast of 
southern California and on Gulf coast from Texas eastward; also - 
northward to Missouri (formerly to Iowa) and northwestern Nebraska; 
has occurred in Wisconsin and South Dakota; breeds also from 
the coasts of Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida 
