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south to the Bahamas, West Indies, British Honduras, and Venezuela; 

 now rare, but formerly abundant in the breeding season from Florida 

 to Maine, wandering to Labrador and Newfoundland; in migration 

 occurs on the coasts of Lower California and western Mexico ; winters 

 from the Gulf coast to Venezuela and Peru. 



SUBGENUS ONYCHOPRION WAGLER. 



Onychoprion WAGLER, Isis, XXV, 1832, 277. Type, by monotypy, Sterna 

 serrata WAGLER = S. fuscata LINNAEUS. 



Sterna fusc&ta LINNAEUS. Sooty Tern. [75.] 



Sterna fuscata LINNJEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 228. (Santo Domingo, 

 West Indies.) 



RANGE. Tropical and subtropical coasts, except Pacific coast of 

 South America. Breeds in America from Florida, Louisiana, and 

 Texas throughout the Bahamas, West Indies, and tropical islands of 

 the Atlantic; wanders north rarely to Maine; winters from Louisiana 

 to Brazil and the Falkland Islands. 



[Sterna anaetheta SCOPOLI. Bridled Tern. [76.] 



Sterna ancethetus SCOPOLI, Del. Florae et Faunae Insubr., II, 1786, 92. 

 (Panay Island, Philippines.) 



RANGE. Tropical regions. Breeds throughout the Bahamas 

 and the West Indies to Venezuela, and also in tropical parts of the 

 Eastern Hemisphere; accidental in Florida and South Carolina.] 



GENUS HYDROCHELIDON BOIE. 



Hydrochelidon BOIE, Isis, X, 1822, 563. Type, by subs, desig., Sterna 

 nigra LINNAEUS (Gray, 1841). 



