96 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



77. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis (GMEL.). 



Black Tern. 



Sterna surinamensis GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 604. 



Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis STEJN. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 40. 



[B 6 95> C 575, R 693, C 806.] 



HAB. Temperate and tropical America. From Alaska and the 

 Fur Countries to Chili, breeding from the Middle United States 

 northward. 



[78.] Hydrochelidon leucoptera (MEISN. & SCHINZ). 



White-winged Black Tern. 



Sterna leucoptera MEISN. & SCHINZ, Vog. Schweiz, 1815, 264. 

 Hydrochelidon leucoptera BOIE, Isis, 1822, 563. 



HAB. Eastern Hemisphere, accidental in North America (Wis- 

 consin). 



GENUS ANOUS STEPHENS. 



Anous STEPH. Gen. Zool. XIII. pt. i. 1826, 139. Type, Sterna sto- 

 lida LINN. 



79. Anous stolidus (LINN.). 



Noddy. 



Sterna stolida LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 137. 

 Anous stolidus GRAY, List Gen. B. 1841, 100. 



[B 696, C 576, R 695, C 808.] 



HAB. Tropical and subtropical regions ; in America from Brazil 

 and Chili north to the Gulf and South Atlantic States. 



FAMILY RYNCHOPHX^E. SKIMMERS. 



GENUS RYNCHOPS LINN. 

 Rynchops LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 138. Type, R. nigra LINN. 



