180 LARIDJK. 



Order GAVUE. 



Family LARID^3. 



Subfamily STERNIN^E. 



Genus STERNA, Brisson, Ornith. vi. p. 202 (1760). 



Sterna, the latinized form of the name ; cf. Frisian Stirn, Q-erm. Tanner, 

 Swedish Fisk-tdrna, Norwegian Makrel-terne, our Tern and Tarney. Deri- 

 vation unknown. 



Sterna macrura. AECTIC TEEN. 



Sterna macrura, Naumann, Isis, 1819, p. 1847. 



Sterna macrura, Naum. x. p. 114; Gould, v. pi. 72. 



Sterna arctica, Macg. v. p. 643 ; Hewitson, p. 481 ; Yarr. 



ed. 2, iii. p. 507; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 512. 

 Sterna macroura, Gray, p. 240. 



Sterna hirundo, Harting, p. 76; Dresser, viii. p. 255. 

 The Arctic Tern, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 399. 



Macrura = long-tailed ; from juarcpos + ovpd. 



A regular summer visitant, breeding north of the Humber, 

 and becoming more abundant in the northern and western 

 portions of the kingdom. It inhabits the northern portions 

 of the Palsearctic and Nearctic Regions ; a straggler on 

 migration to the Neotropical and Ethiopian Regions. 



Sterna fluviatilis. COMMON TEEN. 



Sterna fluviatilis, Naumann, Isis, 1819, p. 1848. 



Sterna hirundo, Naum. x. p. 89 ; Macg. v. p. 638 ; Hewitson, 

 p. 480; Gray, p. 240; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 504; id. 

 ed. 3, iii. p. 509; Gould, v. pi. 70. 



Sterna fluviatilis, Harting, p. 75 ; Dresser, viii. p. 263. 



The Common Tern, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 396. 



Fluviatilis = of or belonging to a river, fluvlus. 



A regular and generally distributed visitant to the coasts 



