ORDER LONGIPENNES. 47 



Hydrochelidon nigra (LINNJEUS). 



RANGE. Europe, south in winter to both coasts of Africa; temperate 

 interior of North America, south in winter to South America. 



[a. Hydrochelidon nigra nigra. Extralimital.] 



6. Hydrochelidon nigra suriname"nsis (GMELIN). Black Tern. [77.] 



Sterna surinamensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 604. (Surinam.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds from southwestern British 

 Columbia, Great Slave Lake, southern Keewatin, and western Ontario south 

 to inland lakes of California, Nevada, Colorado, northern Missouri, and north- 

 ern Ohio; winters from Mazatlan, Mexico, to Panama, Peru, and Chile; east 

 coast of United States in autumn; accidental in Alaska, Nova Scotia, and 

 New Brunswick; casual in the West Indies and Bahamas. 



[Hydrochelidon leucdptera (TEMMINCK). White-winged Black Tern. [78.] 



Sterna leucoptera TEMMINCK, Manuel d'Orn., 1815, 483. (Shores of the 

 Mediterranean; Swiss Lakes, etc.) 



RANGE. Temperate and tropical parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. 

 Breeds from central and southern Europe eastward through temperate 

 Asia to China; in winter southward throughout Africa, and to Aus- 

 tralia and New Zealand; accidental at Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin, 

 and on Barbados.] 



GENUS ANGUS STEPHENS. 



Anous STEPHENS, General Zoology, XIII, Pt. i, 1826, 139. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Anous niger STEPHENS = Sterna stolida LINNAEUS (Gray, 

 1840). 



Anous stdlidus (LINNAEUS). Noddy. [79.] 



Sterna stolida LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 137. (West Indies.) 



RANGE. Tropical coasts. Breeds on the Florida Keys, on the 

 coast of Louisiana, and in the Bahamas and West Indies; winters 

 south to Brazil and Tristan da Cunha Island. 



