CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



793. Sterna caspia Pall. bc82.C5ci.rc80. 



Caspian Tern. 



794. Sterna maxima Bodd. b G83. c 5G2. r csi. 



Cayenne Tern ; Iloyal Tern. 



795. Sterna elegans Gurub. b csi. c oca. r c82. 



Elegant Tern. 



'^QQ. Sterna cantiaca Gm. b c85. c 5C4. r g83. 



Sandwich Tern. 



797. Sterna hirundo L. b 089. c 5C5. R cse. 



Common Tern or Sea Swaiiow. 



798. Sterna forsteri Nutt. b c8c, coi. c 5C6. r e85. 



Forster's Tern. 



799. Sterna macrura Naum. c coo, C93. c 5C7, scs. r gst 



Arctic Tern. 



800. Sterna dougalli Mont, b C92. c oco. r C88. 



Roseate Tern, 



801. Sterna superciliaris antillarum (Less.) Coues b C94. c 570 r coo 



Least Tern. 



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III 



793. 

 794. 



795. 



796. 



797. 

 798. 



799. 

 800. 



801 



a Latinization, perhaps not older than about 1523, of tlie English ,ern, or stern or stcme 

 or stn-n, there being all these, and other old forms of the word ; Danish Uvme ' &c We 

 have a vague impression that the word is onon.atopocie, fro.n the cry of the bird " One 

 o the na,nes of the bird is the Swiss ^^clnunin;;. Most languages, however, have a 

 diUerent set of words, equivalent to our sea-swallow; as Fr. Hinmddle.de.»,er ; Germ 

 @cc>^d)anu!«c, &c. - Lat. w,,lka, English; Montagu having named the bird after a 

 country where it is comparatively seldom seen. 



S. cas'-pl-a. To the Caspian Sea. 



S. max-I-ma. Lat. umximus, superlative degree of mafjnus, large. 



This is .V. ,r,j!a of the orig. ed. We are now willing to accept Boddaert's name. 



S. e'-l6-gans. See Rnllm, No. 073. 



Tills is S ,,,,l,nc,,l,.,a of the orig. ed. We are glad to return to the orig. name of this 

 species, which II. S. lias shown to be not r,aknadala Lielit., as S. & S. hiul it. 



S. c5n-tl-a'-ca. An adjective formed from Cantium, a place in Britain, mentioned by 

 .luluis Ca-sar; now Kent, rngl.ind. ' 



S. hir-un'-do. See ///, 



No. loO. 



S. for'-ster-I To ,Joh; .{einhold Forster, who wrote, among many other things, a valuable 



account of Hudson s Bay birds, publislied in 1772. 

 S. "lac-ru'-ra. Or. ^aHp6,, long, and olpa, tail. The word is often written monoum, ami 



defensibly so, the full f.,,-,,, l,„i„„ ,„acn.u,ra. But it is pe.missible to shorten oou into 



long «, as we habitually do in I. m-unm for hncoourus. 

 S. dou'-gal-li. To Dr. McDougall, of Scotland. 



This stands as S. ,,nnulhea Briinn., of the orig. ed. But Briinniclrs bird being 



unquestionably the Arctic Tern, No. 709, we do not see why the latter should not be 



called iS. /mradisra. 



S. sQp-er-cll-T-a'-rls. Lat. s„,,rraVnns or .s„prrdl!,w,s, supercilious; i.e., relating to the 

 eye-brow, supccdwm ; super and cilium. a hair ; because one raises the eyebrows in cxpres- 



