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36 (65) Sterna maxima Boddaert 
Royaut TERN 
Synonyms—Sterna reg id, art ; Thalasseus 7 eguus; Sterna cayanensis ; 
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Ca yenne Tern. 
Status—Varyingly common at any season along the ocean coast from San 
Francisco Bay southward (many records). Not known from north of Tomales 
Bay (J. and J. W. Mailliard, MS). One interior record: Elsinore Lake, River- 
side County (Nordhoff, Auk, x1x, 1902, p. 213). Said to have been found breed- 
ing on San Miguel Island (Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Surv., 1876, p. 277). 
37 (66) Sterna elegans Gambel 
ELEGANT TERN 
Synonyms—Thalasseus elegans; Sterna galericulata. 
Status—Rather rare and irregular summer and fall visitant along our sea- 
coast southerly: San Francisco Bay (J. G. Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sei., rv, 
1868, p. 10) ; Monterey (Loomis, Proce. Calif. Acad. Sei., 3rd ser., zool., 1, 1900, 
p. 319); Monterey Bay (specimen in Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; Pacifie Beach, San 
Diego County (Bishop, Condor, vi, 1905, p. 141); San Diego (Belding, MS). 
38 (69) Sterna forsteri Nuttall 
Forster TERN 
Status—Common summer visitant and migrant interiorly (many records) ; 
definitely recorded as breeding at Eagle Lake (Townsend, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 
x, 1887, p. 192; Sheldon, Condor, rx, 1907, p. 186), Lake Tahoe (Ray, Osprey, 
yv, 1901, p. 116), in Sacramento Valley (Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Water Bds. 
N. Amer., 11, 1884, p. 292), and, not so surely, at Elsinore Lake, Riverside 
County (Heller, Condor, m1, 1901, p. 100). Common migrant coastwise. Win- 
_ters sparingly on the coast of the San Diegan district, in rare cases north as far 
as Stockton and Santa Cruz (Belding, MS). 
39 (70) Sterna hirundo Linnaeus 
Common TERN 
Status—Fairly common migrant coastwise: Pacifie Beach, San Diego 
County, September (Bishop, Condor, vu, 1905, p. 141); Alamitos Bay, Los An- 
geles County, September (Willett, Condor, x, 1908, p. 50) ; Hyperion Beach, Los 
Angeles County, May (Willett, Condor, xm, 1910, p. 174; L. H. Miller, Condor, 
xvi, 1914, p. 40) ; Santa Barbara (Willett, Pac. Coast Avif. no. 7, 1912, p. 16) ; 
off Point Pinos, Monterey County, April and May, August to October (Beck, 
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 4th ser., mm, 1910, p. 64). One winter record: San Fran- 
cisco, January (Littlejohn, Condor, v, 1903, p. 81). 
40 (71) Sterna paradisaea Briinnich 
Arctic TERN 
Synonyms—Sterna pikei; Sterna macrura; Slender-billed Tern. 
Status—Fairly common fall migrant coastwise: off Monterey, August 
