Catalogue of Birds found in Europe and America. 
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La RIDM—continued. 
America. 
Antilles, Guatemala, and _ Trinidad. 
(Sclater and Salvin.) 
Sterna cantiaca.* Gm. 
Atlantic coast of North America to the 
West Indies, Honduras (its southern 
breeding limit), and Brazil, at least as 
far as Bahia. (Howard Saunders.) 
Occasional in New England. (Brew- 
ster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, January, 
1879, p. 14.) 
Sterna elegans.* Gamb. (Elegant Tern.) 
From the Gulf of California to Peru and 
Chili. (Howard Saunders.) 
In his paper in the Pro. Zool. Soc., Mr. 
Howard Saunders separates the At- 
lantic form as S. eurygnatha. He 
says it is smaller than S. elegans, 
with the bill less robust, and yellow 
instead of red. It ranges from Santa 
Catharina, South Brazil, to the island 
of Trinidad. 
Sterna caspia.* Pall. 
From Labrador, where it breeds, to New 
Jersey; Great Slave Lake, and the 
Mackenzie River. (Howard Saunders. ) 
Sterna antillarum.* Less. 
Throughout temperate America on both 
coasts, and down to the Antilles, 
Trinidad, lat. 10° N. © 
The shafts of the primaries are dark, but 
the rump and tail-coverts are pearl- 
gray, and it has but little, and some- 
times no black at the tip of the bill. 
It isreplaced on the South American rivers 
by S. superciliaris (Vieill), having a 
stouter bill which is entirely yellow, 
and with legs and feet olivaceous 
instead of yellow. (Howard Saunders. ) 
Sterna fuliginosa.* Gm. (Sooty Tern.) 
Found as far north as New England, near 
Lawrence, Massachusetts. (Ruthven 
Deane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Jan., 
1877, p. 27.) 
Southern coasts of the United States, 
and Central America, and Mexico; 
and down to Chili and British Hon- 
duras. The West Indies. (Dresser.) 
Of a closely allied form S. anestheta 
(Scop.), Howard Saunders says it is 
smaller than S. fuliginosa, mantle less 
dark, and the webbing between the 
Europe. 
France, Italy, and Greece. Also at 
Cape of Good Hope and Natal. 
Bengal, Ceylon, Andaman Islands, 
numerous on the west coast of 
Australia. (Dresser.) 
Sterna cantiaca.* Gm. (Sandwich Tern.) 
Europe generally, and British Isles. 
North Africa, and down the west 
coast to South Africa. In Asia, east 
as far as Sindh. (Dresser.) 
Sterna media.* Bodd. (Allied Tern.) 
From Gibraltar, along the Mediterranean, 
down the Red Sea, south to Mada- 
gascar, and eastward along the Indian 
coasts, Malay Archipelago, Aru Islands, 
Torres Straits, and Port Essington. 
(Howard Saunders. ) 
Sterna caspia.* Pall. (Caspian Tern.) 
From Northern Finland to South Africa. 
The coasts of Asia, and the Islands 
down to New Zealand, breeding over 
its range from Bothnia to New Zealand, 
and not in the north only, as many 
species do. (Dresser.) : 
Sterna minuta.* Linn. (Little Tern.) 
Throughout temperate Europe to India. 
In winter on the west coast of Africa, 
to the Cape of Good Hope. 
It has dark shafts to the outer primaries, 
and the rump and tail white. (Howard 
Saunders.) 
Sterna fuliginosa. 
A rare straggler to Europe. One occurred 
near Burton-on-Trent in 1853 (Brown, 
Zool., 1853, p. 8755.) 
One on the Thames, near Wallingford, 
Berks, 21st June, 1869 (Harting, 
Zool., 1869, p. 1867.) 
One (?) on the estuary of Axe, near 
Axminster (Rev. J. B. Selwood, Field, 
17th July, 1869). 
One in Germany (Nauman. ) 
Mr. Dresser says it is common on some 
of the Atlantic islands on parts of the 
