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Melville Island, and northern Greenland, south to Commander and 

 Aleutian islands, northern British Columbia, Great Slave Lake, 

 central Keewatin, Maine, and (formerly) Massachusetts, and in 

 entire Arctic regions of Europe and Asia; winters in Antarctic Ocean, 

 south to latitude 74; in migration, Pacific coast south to southern 

 California, and Atlantic coast south to Long Island; accidental in 

 Colorado. 



Sterna dougalli MONTAGU. Roseate Tern. [72.] 



Sterna dougalli MONTAGU, Suppl. Orn. Diet., 1813, text and plate. (The 

 Cumbrses, in Firth of Clyde, Scotland.) 



RANGE. Temperate and tropical regions. Breeds locally from 

 Sable Island to Long Island and from the Bahamas to Lesser Antilles 

 and Venezuela; formerly from Maine to Florida; rare migrant in 

 Central America; winters from the Bahamas to Brazil; accidental in 

 Ohio; occurs on the coasts of a large part of the Eastern Hemisphere. 



Sterna aleutica BAIRD. Aleutian Tern. [73.] 



Sterna aleutica BAIRD, Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1, 1869, 321, pi. 31, fig. 1. 

 (Kadiak Island, Alaska.) 



RANGE. North Pacific. Breeds from Norton Sound to Kadiak 

 Island, and occurs on Bering Sea coast of Siberia; south in winter to 

 Japan. 



SUBGENUS STERNULA BOIE. 



Sternula BOIE, Isis, X, 1822, 563. Type, by monotypy, Sterna minuta 

 LINNAEUS = S. albifrons PALLAS. 



Sterna antillarum (LESSON). Least Tern. [74.] 



Sternula antillarum LESSON, Compl. GEuvres Buffon, XX, 1847, 256. 

 (Guadeloupe Island, West Indies.) 



RANGE. Tropical and temperate America. Breeds on coast of 

 southern California and on Gulf coast from Texas eastward; also 

 northward to Missouri (formerly to Iowa) and northwestern Nebraska; 

 has occurred in Wisconsin and South Dakota; breeds also from 

 the coasts of Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida 



