44 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



SUBGENUS STERNA. 



[Sterna trudeaui AUDUBON. Trudeau's Tern. [68.] 



Sterna trudeaui AUDUBON, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, 1838, pi. 409, fig. 2. 

 (Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey.) 



RANGE. Coasts of southern South America. Breeds in Argen- 

 tina; casual in Chile and Brazil; accidental on Long Island and at 

 Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey.] 



Sterna f6rsteri NUTTALL. Forster's Tern. [69.] 



Sterna forsteri NUTTALL, Manual Orn., II, 1834, 274. (Saskatchewan 

 River.) 



RANGE. North America. Breeds on interior lakes of California, 

 southern Oregon, and Nevada, and from southwestern Saskatchewan 

 and Manitoba south to northern Colorado, northern Nebraska, 

 northeastern Illinois, and southern Ontario, and on coasts of Texas, 

 Louisiana, and Virginia; winters from southern California, Gulf of 

 Mexico, and South Carolina to southern Guatemala; in migration 

 occurs on the Atlantic coast, casually as far north as Massachusetts; 

 casual in Brazil. 



Sterna hirundo LINN^US. Common Tern. [70.] 



Sterna hirundo LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 137. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Northern Hemisphere, northern South America, and 

 Africa. Breeds from Great Slave Lake, central Keewatin, and 

 southern Ungava south to southwestern Saskatchewan, northern 

 North Dakota, southern Wisconsin, northern Ohio, and North 

 Carolina; winters from Florida to Brazil; casual in migration on 

 Pacific coast from British Columbia to Lower California. In Eastern 

 Hemisphere breeds in Europe and Asia and winters in India and 

 southern Africa. 



Sterna paradissea BRUNNICH. Arctic Tern. [71.] 



Sterna paradiscea BRUNNICH, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 46. (Christiansoe 

 Island, Denmark.) 



RANGE. Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds from northern Alaska, 



