Obdeb Steqanopodes. 



Subfamily STERN INv^. Tekns. 

 Genus STERNA LiNNiEus. 



Subgenus STERNA. 



B. 686, 691. R. 685. C. 798. G. 313. U. 69. 

 11. Sterna forsteri Nutt. Forster's Tern. Migratory ; not uncommon. Arrive 

 from the middle of April to first of May. May occasionally breed in the State. 



B. 689. R. 686. C. 797. G. 314. U. 70. 



12. Sterna hirundo Linn. Common Tern. Migratory; very rare. Arrive from 

 the middle of April to first of May. 



Subgenus STERNULA Boie. 

 B. 694. R. 690. C. 801. G. 315. U. 74. 



13. Sterna antillarum (Less.). Least Tern. Summer resident; rare; not com- 

 mon in migration. Arrive the last of April to first of May. Begin laying about 

 the middle of May. Nest in a depression or place worked out to fit the body in 

 the sand on the islands and banks of the streams. Eggs, two to four — -rarely 

 ever more than three — 1.15x.90; bufif to cream white, specked and spotted, in 

 some cases blotched about the large end with brown, umber, and lilac; in form, 

 rather oval to pyriform. 



Genus HYDROOHELIDON Boie. 



B. 695. R. 693. C. 806. G. 316. U. 77. 



14. Hydrochelidon nig-ra surinamensis (Gmel.). Black Tern. Summer res- 

 ident; rare; in migration quite common. Arrive the last of April to first of May. 

 Begin laying the last of May. Nest on low, wet, marshy ground, bordering ponds 

 and sloughs; made of bits of stems of reeds and grasses, and lined with the 

 leaves and finer stems. In some cases the eggs are laid upon the bare ground. 

 Eggs, usually three — occasionally four — 1.30 x .96, greenish drab to olive brown» 

 spotted and blotched with brownish black, often thickest and running together 

 around large end ; in form rather oval to pyriform. 



Order STEGANOPODES. Totipalmate 



Swimmers. 



Family ANHINGID^. Darters. 



Genus ANHINGtA Beisson. 



B. 628. R. 649. C. 760. G. 306. U. 118. 

 15. Anhinga anhinga (Linn.). Anhinga. A rare summer visitant. In August, 

 1881, a specimen was captured in the Solomon Valley by C. W. Smith, Esq., of 

 Stockton; and identified by Prof. P. H. Snow, who has the skin of the bird in 

 his cabinet. 



