158 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



niou transient" (Giddings). Johnson — " specimen in Universit)^ 

 Museum shot Ma)^ 5, 1888, Iowa City, b)- C. Houseworth " 

 (Anderson). Kossuth — " rare transient " (Bingaman). Lee — 

 " common migrant " (Currier, Praeger). Linn — ■" shot one Ma}^ 

 21, 1904, Cedar Rapids" (Bailey). Pottawattamie — Mills — 

 " abundant migrant " (Trostler). Poweshiek — " rare transient" 

 (Kelsey). Sioux — "common" (Johnson). Winnebago — "fre- 

 quent migrant" (Anderson). Winneshiek — "rare visitant; 

 reported by Hall Thomas " (Smith). Woodbury — "uncommon 

 transient" (Rich). The species was observed at Bear Lake, 

 Minn., May 27, 1896, just across the state line from Winnebago 

 county, b)' J. Eugene Law. 



19- (70)- Sterna Jiinnido Linn. Common Tern. 



This species appears to be less common in Iowa than the pre- 

 ceding. The earliest Iowa record is that of Prince Maximilian 

 (Reise in das Innere N. A., ii, 341), above Bo)^er's Creek, near 

 Council Bluffs, May 12, 1834. He says: " Ein Plug der roth- 

 schnabligen Meerschwalbe {Ster7ia kinindo) strich iiber uns weg, 

 wovon wir eine erlegten." Allen lists it (1870), and Cooke 

 states that it was taken by Mr. Preston in central Iowa (Bird 

 Migr. in Miss. Val., 1884-5). Prof. Nutting reports a specimen 

 from Johnson county in the University museum (Proc. Iowa 

 Acad. Sci., 1892, 40). 



Count}' records: Blackhawk — ' 'common transient" (Salisbury). 

 Des Moines — -two specimens in the University museum were taken 

 at Burlington, May 26, 1893, by Paul Bartsch. Linn — "rare" 

 (Berry). Pottawattamie — Mills — "abundant migrant" (Trost- 

 ler); Poweshiek — "transient" (Kelsey, Jones). 



20. (74). Sterna antillarum (Less.). Least Tern. 



This dainty little Tern does not appear to be common in Iowa 

 at any time. Thomas Say records the arrival of the Lesser Tern 

 {Sterna minuta) at Engineers' Cantonment April 2, 1820 (Long's 

 Exp., i, 216). John Krider (Forty Years' Notes, 1879, p. 82), 

 says: "I found it very plenty on Clear Lake, Iowa. Breeds on 

 the drift along the shore of the lake." "L- Skow found it breed- 

 ing at Cut-off Lake, near Omaha, in 1893. Numerous migration 

 records from Omaha," etc. (Rev. Bds. Neb., 21.) 



