30 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



Roseate Tern. 

 31-72-(800). Sterna dougalli Montag. ROSEATE TERN. 



Rare; probably a straggler; Lake Michigan; "occasional visitor" (Gibbs' Birds of 

 Michigan); one specimen recorded in catalogue of the Birds of Michigan in the museum 

 of Kent Scientific Institute at Grand Rapids, by E. L. Moseley; "Prof. Smith shot 

 two from a flock of five, in Hillsdale, in the spring of 1892" (F. M. Falkner); " common 

 on Lake Erie and Raisin River" (Jerome Trombley); " probable summer resident" 

 (Dr. J. B. Steere). 



,82-74-(801). Sterna antillarum (Less.). LEAST TERN. 



Given in Gibbs' Birds of Michigan; "reported as a summer resident in northern 

 Indiana" (Butler's Birds of Ind.); "certainly breeds at St, Clair Flats" (Dr. W. C. 

 Brownell). 



33-75-(804). Sterna fnliginosa Omel. SOOTY TERN. 



,Dr. G. W. Topping, of DeWitt, in authority for one having been taken near DeWitt, 

 in the spring of 1880. Coues says "along the Atlantic coast;" Ridgway says "north to 

 Carolinas, casually to New England; " if taken in Michigan its occurence was doubtless 

 a rare accident. 



GENUS HYDROCHELIDON BOIE. 



34-7 7-(306). Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis (Gmel.}. BLACK TERN; SHORT- 

 TAILED TERN. 



Abundant; spring and summer; "Hillsdale Co." (A. H. Boies); "Mackinac Island " 

 (S. E. White); taken at St. Clair Flats by W. H. Collins, (Bull. Nutt. O. Club, Vol. V, 

 p. 61); " common on Lake Erie and Raisin River " (Jerome Trombley); " nests on float- 

 ing debris at St. Clair Flats " (W. A. Davidson); " common at Saginaw " (Miles' Birds 

 of Michigan); "Kent Co." (S. E. White); breeds; "abundant breeder in Wayne Co." 

 (B. W. Swales); "probably raises two broods " (Amos W. Butler); nests about lakes in 

 June on hummocks on the ground, often built up several inches; eggs three, greenish, 

 "and spotted " (Gibbs). 



ORDER STEGANOPODES. TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS. 



FAMILY PHALACROCORACID^E. CORMORANTS. 

 Heavy hooked-billed birds; food, fish; they do not plunge, but dive for their food. 



