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39 (74) Sterna antillarum (Lesson) Coues. 



Least Tern. 



Syn. — Sterna stipe rciliaris var. antillarum. 



Status — Common summer visitant to the extreme southern seacoast ; breeds locally north 

 to Ballona Beach, Los Angeles County, 



40 (77) Hydrochelidon surinamensis (Gmelin) Bonaparte. 



Black Tern. 



Syn. — Sterna nigra; Hydrochelidon nigra; Hydrochelidon fissipes; Hydrochelidon plumbea ; 



Hydrochelidon larifonnis; Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis. 

 Status— Common summer visitant to fresh bodies of water inland; breeds at Eagle 



Lake, Lake Tahoe, Tulare Lake, Elsinore Lake, and San Jacinto Lake. 



41 (81) Diomedea nigripes Audubon. 



Black-footed Albatross. 



Syn. — Diomediafuliginosa; Phoebetria fuliginosa {?) 



Status — Common on the adjacent ocean through the entire year. 



42 (82) Diomedea albatrus Pallas. 



Short-tailed Albatross. 



Syn. — Diomedea brachyura. 



Status — Fairly common on the ocean throughout the year. 



43 (86 b) Fulmarus glupischa (Stejneger) Salvin. 



Pacific Fulmar. 



Syn. — Fulmarus pacificus; Fulmarus glacialis; Fulmarus glacialis glupischa. 

 Status — Common but irregular fall and winter visitant on the ocean. 



44 (86.1) Fulmarus rodgersi Cassin. 



RoDGERS Fulmar. 



Syn. — Fulmarus glacialis rodgersi; Fulmarus glacialis columba. 



Status — Irregular fall and winter visitant on the ocean; recorded also from San Francisco 

 Bay. 



45 ( — ) Puffinus bulleri Salvin. 



BuLLER Shearwater. 



Status — Known only from the female specimen obtained by L. M. Loomis on Monterey 

 Bay, November 6, 1896. 



46 (91) Puffinus creatopus Coues. 



PiNK-FOOTED SHEARWATER. 



Status — Common summer and fall visitant coastwise, though probably breeding in the 

 southern hemisphere; not recorded north of San Francisco. 



