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CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



77. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis (Gmel.). 



Black Tern. 



Sterna sttyiuamensis Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 604. 



Hydrc^h<:lidon nigra surinamensis Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 40. 



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



Hab. Temperate and tropical America. From Alaska and the 

 Fur Countries to Chili, breeding from the Middle United States 

 northward. 



[78.] Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Meisn. & Schinz). 



White- winged Black Tern. 



Sterna leucoptera Meisn. & Schinz, Vog. Schvveiz, 181 5, 264. 

 Hydrochelidon leucoptera Boie, Isis, 1822, 563. 



[B— , C575^/>, R694, C807.] 



Hab. Eastern Hemisphere, accidental in North America (Wis- 

 consin). 



Genus ANOXJS Stephens. 



Anous Steph. Gen. Zool. XIII. pt. i. 1826, 139. Type, Sterna sto- 

 lida 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.] 



Hab. Tropical and subtropical regions ; in America from Brazil 

 and Chili north to the Gulf and South Atlantic States. 



Family RYNOHOPID-ffl. Skimmers. 



Genus RYNCHOPS Linn. 



Rynchops Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 138. Type, R. nigra Linn. 



