ORDER LONGIPENNES. 27 



[B 695, C 575, R 693, C 806.] 



GEOG. DIST. Temperate and tropical America. From Alaska 

 and the Fur Countries to Brazil and Chili, breeding from the middle 

 United States, west of the Alleghanies, northward. 



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



White- winged Black Tern. 



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

 Hydrochelidon leucoptera BOIE, Isis, 1822, 563. 

 [B , C 575 bis, R 694, C 807.] 



GEOG. DIST. Eastern hemisphere, accidental in North America 

 (Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin). 



GENUS ANOUS STEPHENS. 



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

 stolida 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.] 



GEOG. DIST. Tropical and subtropical regions ; in America from 

 Brazil and Chili north to the Gulf and South Atlantic States. 



FAMILY RYNCHOPID.2E. SKIMMERS. 



GENUS RYNCHOFS LINN. 

 Rynchops\xsn&. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 138. Type, R, m' 



80. Rynchops nigra LINN. 



Black Skimmer. 



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



[B 697, C 577, R 656, C 809.] 



GEOG. DIST. Warmer parts of America, north on the Atlantic 

 coast to New Jersey, and casually to the Bay of Fundy. 



