83 



chiuctu to the arctic region*, and wintering aoulhward to Virginia and Cali- 

 f-ruin"! A. >. I 



.ti.l. run* in MIIIIHI.T. 



Jfff*, thrc to four, not distinguishable with certainty from thone of the 

 preceding, 1*49 x 1-l.V 



Comparing the notes of this Itinl with those of the Common Tern 

 Mr. Brewstcr writes: "Their notes arc similar, hut several of them 

 Can be dist inguishcd. The usual cry of .V. murruru [ = jxiradtMKi] cor- 

 responds to the trarr of S. hintndn, l.ut is shriller, ending in a n>m^ 

 inllt-.-tioii, and soiiitdini,' very like the squeal of a pig. The bird als> 

 has a short, harsh note Minilar to that of r'orstcrV. Tern. At any dis- 

 tance within fair gun-range I could usually separate it from Wilson's 

 [ = Common] Tern by its longer tail, and by the uniform and deeper 

 color of the hill. In flight and habits the two seemed to me identical " 

 (Birds nliM-r\ed on the (Julf of St. Lawrence, Proc. Bust. S> 

 Ili.-t., xxii, 1883, p. 402). 



72. Sterna dougalli Montay. ROSEATE TERN. Ad. in ntmmer. 

 Top of head black; back and wings pearl-gray; outer web of outer pri- 

 maries and idiaft part of the inner web slaty black (Fig. 61, <); under part* 

 white, generally delicately tinted with pinkish; tail pure vhiU ; bill black, 

 the base reddish : feet red. Ad. in irinttr. Similar to the above, but front 

 of the head white, morv or l.s streaked or .-iH.tt ( .1 with black ; under jart* 

 pure white. /;/*.. rir*t i>'umage. " Pileurn and najK- pule burly trrayi>h. finely 

 mottled or sprinkled with darker, and Mtreaked. t->|n-cially on the crown, with 

 lii^ky ; rl>ital and auricular regions dusky blaekisli ; remainder of the head, 

 extreme lower part of tho na]>e, and entire lower parts white, the nape, and 

 (uuiietitiiea Uie breast, finely mottled with butty gray; back, ncapular*, wing- 

 rump. up|M-r tail-eoverta, and tail pale jK-arl-hlue, the back and acapu- 

 huw overlaid with pale butt* irregularly mottled with dunky, each feather with 

 a Kubmarginal dusky V-shajK-d mark; primary covert* and primaries dark 

 1.1 uWi -gray edged with paler, the inner weh, of the latter broadly edged with 

 white; tail-feather* marked near their en.N mu.-h like the longer scapular*, 

 their outer web* rather dark grayish ; bill l>rowni.-h dusky ; feet duaky." I~, 

 15-50; W., 9-50; T., 7'50; B., 1-50 (B., B., and R.). 



Ka*gt. Tem|KT.ite anil tmjiieal n-iri"iis ; in Amerien apparently confined 

 t-> the Atlantic coant, breeding from Florida northward to Maine; compara- 

 tively rare north of southern New Jersey ; winters south of the L'nited State*. 



Uland, uiieiiinmiin but regular S. H., May through Sept 

 . three, not distiniruishnble with certainty fn>m Uiooe of S.fortUti or 

 S. fiirunj.; tun averaging paler and less heavily marked, 1-95 x 1-20. 



This species is found associated with colonies of Common T 

 apparently making it- n.-t amonu their*. It N H lt-<s r\ritable. wilder 

 bird than hirumln, and its Dingle harsh note, rack, may U- distinctly 

 heard above the uproar of Common Terns, as it hovers somewhat in 



