^8 Cory on the Birch of the West Indies. [January 



and second showing a clear band of white on the inner webs, not 

 reaching within an incli of the tips, and gradually fading on the 

 others; upper tail-coverts slaty gray ; outer tail-feathers «/«/05/ e«- 

 iirely zvhite, showing a tinge of brownish near the tip; legs and 

 feet black; iris brown. 



Length, 14.25; wing, 10.00; tail, 6.25; tarsus, .70; bill, 1.50. 



Common in the Bahama Ishuids ; breeds. Cuba, Sombrero; 

 probably occurs throughout the West Indies. 



Sterna fuliginosa Gmel. 



Sterna fnlioiHOsa Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 605 (1788). — D'Orb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 319 (1840). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 134 (1859) (Bahamas): ib. XI, p. 98 (1867) 

 (San Domingo). — Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1S69, p. 589 

 (St. Bartholomew) ; ib. p. 603 (Porto Rico).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. L p. 68 (1878) (Dominica) ; ib. p. 277 (Grenada) ; ib. p. 462 

 (Guadeloupe). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 214 (1880). — A. & E. 

 Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (18S1). — Cory-, Bds. Haiti & 

 San Domingo, p. 181 (1885); ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 33 (1S85).— 

 Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 11 (1886). 



Hydrochelidon ftiliginosa GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 433 (1S47). — Brewer, Pr. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 308 (i860) (Cuba).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 

 1862, p. 207 (Jamaica). 



Onychoprion fnliginosHS K. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, P- 37^ (St- Croix) .^ 

 — Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, i860, p. 379 (St. Thomas). 



Haliplana fuliginosa GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 393 (1866); 

 ib. J. f. O. 1875, P- 393 (Cuba) ; ib. 1S78, p. 163 (Porto Rico); ib. 

 Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VH, p. 414 (187S) (Porto Rico). 



Bahamas and Antilles. 



^ Sterna dougalli Mont. 



Sterna dougalli MoT^T. Orn. Diet. Suppl. (1813). — Sundev. Oefv. K. 



Vet. Akad. For. 1S69, p. 589 (St. Bartholomew). —Lawr. Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S8 (187S) (Dominica); ib. p. 238 (Antigua) ib. p. 



277 (Grenada) ; ib. p. 360 (Martinique) ; ib. p. 462 (Guadeloupe). 



—Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 33 (1885).— Wells, List Bds. Grenada, 



p. II (1886). 

 Sterna paradisea GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 392 (1866) ; ib. 



J. f. O. 1875, p. 391 (Cuba) ; //;. 1878, p. 163 (Porto Rico) ; ib. Anal. 



Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VH, p. 411 (1878) (Porto Rico).— Cory, Bds. 



Bahama L p. 212 (18S0). 



Common throughout the West Indies. 



