ORDER LONGIPENNES. 47 
Hydrochelidon nigra (LINN Us). 
Rance.— Europe, south in winter to both coasts of Africa; temperate 
interior of North America, south in winter to South America. 
[a. Hydrochelidon nigra nigra. Extralimital.] 
6. Hydrochelidon nigra surinaménsis (Gmreuin). Black Tern. [77.] 
Sterna surinamensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 604. (Surinam.) 
Raneoe.— North and South America. Breeds from southwestern British 
Columbia, Great Slave Lake, southern Keewatin, and western Ontario south 
to inland lakes of California, Nevada, Colorado, northern Missouri, and north- 
ern Ohio; winters from Mazatlan, Mexico, to Panama, Peru, and Chile; east 
coast of United States in autumn; accidental in Alaska, Nova Scotia, and 
New Brunswick; casual in the West Indies and Bahamas. 
[Hydrochelidon leucéptera (TEMMINCK). White-winged Black Tern. [78.] 
Sterna leucoptera TEMMINCK, Manuel d’Orn., 1815, 483. (Shores of the 
Mediterranean; Swiss Lakes, etc.) 
RancGEe.— Temperate and tropical parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. 
Breeds from central and southern Europe eastward through temperate 
Asia to China; in winter southward throughout Africa, and to Aus- 
tralia and New Zealand; accidental at Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin, 
and on Barbados. ] 
Genus ANOUS SrEpHENs. 
Anotis STEPHENS, General Zoology, XIII, Pt. i, 1826, 139. Type, by 
subs. desig., Anotis niger STEPHENS = Sterna stolida Linnaxus (Gray, 
1840). 
Anoiis stélidus (Linnus). Noddy. [79.] 
Sterna stolida Linnmus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 1387. (West Indies.) 
RanGE.— Tropical coasts. Breeds on the Florida Keys, on the 
coast of Louisiana, and in the Bahamas and West Indies; winters 
south to Brazil and Tristan da Cunha Island. 
