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MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One purchased with the Holman collection, said to have been 
taken on Lake Erie ; also one egg from the Bahamas. 
67. Cabot’s Tern. 
Sterna sandvicensts acuflavida (CaBot) Ripew. 1884. 
Accidental along the Great Lakes, 
In the spring of 1882 Dr. Garnier noticed three individuals of 
this species coursing around a mill-pond not far from his resi- 
dence at Lucknow, Ont. He shot one and the writer saw it after 
it was mounted. (Mcllw ath.) 
_ 69. Forster’s Tern. 
Sterna forstert NUTT. 1834. 
Only a casual visitor on Lake Ontario in spring and fall. (Mc- 
Ilwrath.) Common; breeds abundantly on St. Clair Flats. 
(Saunders & Morden.) Summer resident about the large lakes 
of Manitoba; nesting among the reeds. (Zhompson.) In the 
summer of 1881 the writer found them abundant on lakes Mani- 
toba, Water-hen and Winnipegoosis where they were breeding in 
numbers in the bordering marshes. West of Manitoba their place 
is chiefly taken by the Common Tern, as only one pair was seen 
by Spreadborough at Indian Head in a residence of three months 
in 1892, None have been noted further west. Richardson says 
they extend northerly to lat. 57°. 
BREEDING Notes.—On June 18th, 1894, I found an immense 
colony of these birds breeding on an island in Shoal Lake, Man- 
itoba. The nest was made in a hollow in the sand, and con- 
tained three eggs, resting on a few straws. (Dizpfie.) It is not 
common at St. Clair Flats, Ont., but nests have been taken there 
by Mr. J. A. Morden, but only a few nests of this species to 
many of the next. (W. Saunders.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two eggs taken by Mr. Dippie at Lake Manitoba, June 22nd, 
1893. 
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