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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



Roseate Tern. 

 31-72-(800). Sterna dougalli Montag. Roseate Tekn. 



Rare; probably a straggler; Lake Michigan; "occasional visitor" (Gibbs' Birds of 

 Michigan); one specimen recorded in catalogue of the Birds of Michigan in the museum 

 of Kent Scientific Institute at Grand Rapids, by E. L. Moseley; "Prof. Smith shot 

 two from a flock of five, in Hillsdale, in the spring of 1892" ( F. M. Falkner); " common 

 on Lake Erie and Raisin River" (Jerome Trombley); "probable summer resident" 

 (Dr. J. B. Steerel. 



32-74 (SOI). Sterna antillarum [Less.). Least Tern. 



Given in Gibbs' Birds of Michigan; "reported as a summer resident in northern 

 Indiana'" (Butler's Birds of Ind.); "certainly breeds at St. Clair Flats" (Dr. W. C. 

 Brownell). 



33-75-(804). Sterna fuliginosa (?me/. Sooty Tern. 



Dr. G. W. Topping, of DeWitt. is authority for one having })een taken near DeWitt, 

 in the spring of 1880. Coues says "along the Atlantic coast;" Ridgway says "north to 

 Carolinas, casually to New England:" if taken in Michigan its occurence was doubtless 

 a rare accident. 



Genus HYDROCHELIDON Boie. 



34-77 (30(>). Hydrocheiidon nigra surinaiuensis (Gmel.). Black Tekn: Short- 

 tailed Tern. 

 Abundant; spring and summer; "Hillsdale Co." (.\. H. Boies); "Mackinac Island " 

 (S. E. White); taken at St. Clair Flats by W. H. Collins. (Bull. Nutt. O. Clul), Vol. V, 

 p. 61); " common on Lake Erie and Raisin River " (Jerome Trombley); " nests on float- 

 ing debris at St. Clair Flats " (W. A. Davidson); " common at Saginaw " (Miles' Birds 

 of Michigan): "Kent Co." (S. E.White); breeds; "abundant breeder in Wayne Co." 

 (B. W. Swales); "proljably raises two y)roods " (Amos W. Butler); nests about lakes in 

 June on hummocks on the ground, often built up several inches; eggs three, greenish, 

 "and spotted " (Gibljs). 



Order STEGANOPODES. Totipalmate Swimmers. 



Family PHALACROCORACID^.. Cormorants. 

 Heavy hooked-billed birds; food, fish: they do not plunge, hut dive for their food. 



