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south to the Bahamas, West Indies, British Honduras, and Venezuela; 
now rare, but formerly abundant in the breeding season from Florida 
to Maine, wandering to Labrador and Newfoundland; in migration 
occurs on the coasts of Lower California and western Mexico; winters 
from the Gulf coast to Venezuela and Peru. 
Suscenus ONYCHOPRION Wac ter. 
Onychoprion WAGLER, Isis, X XV, 1832, 277. Type, by monotypy, Sterna 
serrata WAGLER = S. fuscata LINNXUS. 
Sterna fuscéta LINN=us. Sooty Tern. [75.] 
Sterna fuscata LINN XUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 228. (Santo Domingo, 
West Indies.) 
RanGE.— Tropical and subtropical coasts, except Pacific coast of 
South America. Breeds in America from Florida, Louisiana, and 
Texas throughout the Bahamas, West Indies, and tropical islands of 
the Atlantic; wanders north rarely to Maine; winters from Louisiana 
to Brazil and the Falkland Islands. 
[Sterna anethéta Scoroit. Bridled Tern. [76.] 
Sterna anethetus Scopout, Del. Flore et Faune Insubr., II, 1786, 92. 
(Panay Island, Philippines.) 
RancGE.— Tropical regions. Breeds throughout the Bahamas 
and the West Indies to Venezuela, and also in tropical parts of the 
Eastern Hemisphere; accidental in Florida and South Carolina.] 
GENUS HYDROCHELIDON Bote. 
Hydrochelidon Bors, Isis, X, 1822, 563. Type, by subs. desig., Sterna 
nigra LinN&uUS (Gray, 1841). 
