270 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 
States record of wintering (Coues). Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Anda- 
man Islands, Ceylon, Malayan Islands, west coast of Australia. (Saun- 
ders.) 
The same remarks apply, unfortunately, to this species as to the pre- 
ceding, it being no longer found, except, perhaps, as an autumn strag- 
gler, in the islands. At one time it used to breed in considerable num- 
bers on Gurnet Head Rock (sometimes called the Black Rock). Mr. 
Hurdis says: ‘On this rock, difficult of access on account of the ocean 
‘swell, as many as 40 or 50 of this elegant species of Tern have been 
observed in the middle of June, and from the circumstance of both eggs 
and young having been obtained there on the 1st August, I conclude 
that it must rear two broods in the season.” 
Both species were called ‘‘ Redshanks” by the Bermudians. 
176. Sterna fuliginosa, Gm. Sooty Tern. 
Sterna fuliginosa, Gm., Lath., Wils., Bp., Nutt., Aud., Cab., Lawr., Hartl., 
Dress., Sund., Hart., Saunders. 
Sterna (Onychoprion) fuliginosa, Gray. 
Sterna (Haliplanes) fuliginosa, Blas. 
Sterna (Haliplana) fuliginosa, Coues. 
Onychoprion fuliginosa, Wagl., Gould, Scl., Scl. & Salv. 
Haliplana fuliginosa, Wagl., Bp., Coues, Salv., Gundl., Lawr., Allen, 
Sterna serrata, Forst. 
Hydrochelidon fuliginosum, Bp., Gosse. 
Sterna guttata, Forst. 
Anous Vherminieri, Less. 
Sterna gouldii, Reich. 4 
Sterna luctuosa, Phil. & Laudb. 
Thalassipora infuscata, Gray. 
Sterna fuliginosa var. crissalis, Bd., apud Lawr. 
Length, 16.50; wing, 12; tail, 7 to 7.50; bill, 1.80; tarsus, 1. 
Hab.—Throughout the warmer portions of the world (Saunders). 
Of rare occurrence. Colonel Wedderburn says: “Dr. Cole shot a 
specimen of this Tern in October, 1846. During the whole time I was 
quartered in Bermuda I only saw one of these birds, and that in the 
year 1848. I was walking on tbe sand-hills, and saw a bird apparently 
dead on the ground. I put down my gun, and picked the bird up, and 
was just putting him carefully in paper when my prize thought fit to 
come to life and flew away, taking me so much by surprise that I never 
thought of using my gun. It was a most beautiful specimen, and must 
have been driven on shore by some heavy gale.” Mr. Hurdis records 
that a third example was found in an exhausted state in Devonshire 
parish, on the 23d October, 1854, after a severe gale the previous day. 
Lieutenant Denison, Royal Engineers, received a young male in euri- 
