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soon effect its complete extinction. (Since the above was written, 

 through the efforts of a number of bird-lovers who raised a sum 

 of money for the purpose, permission has been obtained from the 

 Lighthouse Board to have the liehtkeeper on Little Gull Island 

 appointed a special game-keeper whose duty it shall be to protect 

 the Terns on Big Gull Island.) 



FIG. 2. TERN. 



29. Sterna tlougalli Montag. ROSEATE TERN. (72.) "Tem- 

 perate and tropical regions". In North America formerly breed- 

 ing along the Atlantic coast northward irregularly to Maine ; now 

 rare north of southern New Jersey. A few pairs live on Big Gull 

 Island with the colony of Common Terns above mentioned. 



The Arctic Tern (Sterna par -adiscea] is included by Lawrence 

 without remark. I know of no record of its occurrence near New 

 York City, and Mr. Butcher has but one specimen from Long Is- 

 land, a male taken on Ram Island Shoals, July i, 1884. 



30 Sterna antillarum (Less.). LEAST TERN. (74. Northern 

 South America, northward to California, Dakota, and Massachu- 

 setts, breeding locally throughout its range. Formerly a common 

 summer resident in suitable places on the coasts in this vicinity, 

 but now occurs only as a rare migrant. 



31. Sterna fuliginosa GmeL SOOTY TERN. (75.) A southern 

 species, not breeding north of North Carolina, but occasionally 

 straying farther up the coast. It has been recorded from Lake 

 Ronkonkoma, L. I. (Dutcher, Auk, III, 1886, p. 433), and Highland 

 Falls, N. Y. (Mcarns, Bull. Essex. Inst., XII, 1879/87). 



