﻿BIRDS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

  141 
  

  

  to 
  Massachusetts. 
  As 
  a 
  New 
  York 
  species 
  it 
  rests 
  on 
  the 
  record 
  of 
  Lawrence, 
  

   [Lye. 
  N. 
  Y., 
  Ann. 
  1866. 
  8: 
  299]; 
  and 
  DeKay, 
  page 
  303, 
  who 
  states 
  that 
  

   it 
  has 
  occurred 
  on 
  our 
  coast. 
  

  

  Sterna 
  trudeaui 
  Audubon 
  

   Trudeau 
  Tern 
  

  

  Sterna 
  trudeaui 
  Audubon. 
  Ornithological 
  Biographies. 
  1839. 
  5: 
  125, 
  pi. 
  409 
  

  

  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  [68] 
  

  

  trudeau'i, 
  of 
  Dr 
  James 
  Trudeau 
  

  

  Distinctive 
  marks. 
  Bill 
  yellow 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  tip 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  black 
  band 
  

   between; 
  feet 
  reddish; 
  head 
  white 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  slaty 
  black 
  bar 
  on 
  its 
  sides 
  

   passing 
  through 
  the 
  eye; 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  plumage 
  uniformly 
  pale 
  pearl- 
  

   color; 
  except 
  the 
  rump, 
  tail, 
  underwings, 
  tips 
  and 
  inner 
  veins 
  of 
  the 
  second- 
  

   aries, 
  and 
  the 
  shafts 
  of 
  the 
  primaries 
  together 
  with 
  spaces 
  on 
  their 
  inner 
  

   veins, 
  which 
  are 
  white. 
  

  

  Length 
  14 
  inches; 
  wing 
  10.25; 
  tail 
  6.5, 
  forked 
  2.75; 
  bill 
  1.5-1.7; 
  depth 
  

   of 
  bill 
  .38; 
  tarsus 
  .9; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  1.05. 
  

  

  Xrpper 
  figure, 
  Forster 
  tern. 
  Sterna 
  forsteri 
  Nuttall. 
  Lower 
  figure, 
  Trudeau 
  tern. 
  Sterna 
  trudeaui 
  Audu- 
  

   bon. 
  From 
  Audubon, 
  Birds 
  of 
  America 
  

  

  