ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BIRDS 79 



June 30, 1922 and July 5, 1919 (Bicknell) to October 24, 1920 

 (Janvrin) and November 6, 1917 (Bicknell). 

 New York State. Regular fall transient in New York Bay, 

 but scarce in the Hudson River; noted as early as August 3, 1919 

 (L. N. Nichols). 



CENTRAL PARK. Casual; a bird seen flying over the Lake 

 August 22, 1922 (Griscom). 



BRONX REGION. One record, September 6, 1919 (C. L. 

 Lewis). 



New Jersey. Regular fall transient in Newark Bay, July 31, 

 1916 to October 3, 1920 and October 30, 1921; only two spring 

 records (Urner). 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Recorded from the Hudson only, 

 usually rare, occasionally in some numbers; August 15, 1908 

 (Hix) to September 22, 1912 (Hix). 



ARCTIC TERN (Sterna paradisaea) 



Apparently a casual visitor to the coast; one record, 

 Ram Island Shoals, July 1, 1884 (Butcher). Almost entirely 

 pelagic on migration. On October 5, 1912 I saw hundreds of 

 Terns flying south over the ocean 90 miles east of Montauk, 

 which may well have been this species. The adult in breeding 

 plumage can be identified at close range by its all-red bill, the 

 more deeply forked tail and much grayer underparts. Other 

 plumages and ages are indistinguishable in life from the 

 Common Tern. 



Long Beach. Mr. E. P. Bicknell informs me that he saw an 

 adult at close range on September 1, 1919. 



ROSEATE TERN (Sterna dougalli) 



An uncommon migrant and local summer resident at the 

 eastern end of Long Island, slowly increasing; for years un- 

 known at the western end, now rare. This species, in summer 

 plumage, is readily distinguishable from the Common Tern in 

 life by the black bill, pure white underparts, and the long- 

 outer tail feathers, which seem to stream in the wind. The 

 single harsh note, cack, is quite different from the notes of 

 the Common Tern, and can be heard above the uproar made 



