BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 477 
Adult female.—Wing, 270-294 (283.5); tail, 99-121 (111.8); 
exposed culmen, 49.5-53 (50.9); tarsus, 25-26 (25.5); nee toe, 
18-20 (19).% 
Breeding along South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States, 
from North Carolina (Pimlico Sound; Royal Shoal Island) to Florida 
and Texas (Padre Island; Galveston Bay); migrating southward to 
Bahamas, Greater Antilles (Cuba; Jamaica; Porto Rico; Antigua), 
Gulf and Caribbean coasts of Mexico, British Honduras (Light House 
Reef, May; Saddle Cay; Northern Two Cays), Honduras, and coast 
of South America, from Colombia (Cartagena) to southern Brazil 
(Rio de Janeiro), and Pacific coast of Oaxaca (Gulf of Tehuantepec; 
San Mateo, Aug., Feb.) and Guatemala (Chiapim, Jan.); wintering 
northward to Bahamas, Florida, Louisiana, etc.; accidental north- 
ward, in summer, to Virginia (Cobbs Island), New Jersey (Grassy 
Bay), Massachusetts (Chatham, Aug., 1865), and Ontario (Lucknow 
Spring, 1882, 3 specimens). 
Sterna boysti (not of Latham, 1790) Nurrain, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Can., Water 
Birds, 1834, 276. 
Sterna cantiaca (not of Gmelin, 1789) AupuBoN, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 531, pl. 279; 
Synopsis, 1839, 317; Birds Am., 8vo. ed., vii, 1844, 87, pl. 431.—Ds Kay, New 
York Zool., Birds, 1844, 303, pl. 124, fig. 274.—TurnBuut, Birds E. Penn. and 
N. J., 1869, 47 (New Jersey; straggler)—Atuen, Am. Nat., iti, 1870, 644 
(Massachusetts).—PELZELN, Orn. Bras., 1870, 324 (Rio de Janeiro).—ScratER 
and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 569, part (monogr.).—Covzs, Check 
List, 1873, no. 564; 2d ed., 1882, no. 796.—SauNnpDERS, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1876, 658, part (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxv, 1896, 75, part (Laguna 
Verde and La Antigua, Vera Cruz, Sept.; Cozumel Island, Feb.; Lighthouse 
Reef, Brit. Honduras, May; Chiapam, Guatemala, Jan.; Cartagena, Colombia, 
Feb.; and other American localities)—SzNNETT, Bull. U. 8. Geol. and Geog. 
Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 65 (coast of Texas, breeding).—Merrrit (J. C.), Proc. 
U.S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 172 (Padre Island, Texas, breeding).—Cory, Birds 
Bahama Is., 1880, and 2d ed., 1890, 211.—Satvin, Ibis, 1889, 379 (Cozumel 
Island).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 405 (Gulf 
of Tehuantepec and San Mateo, Oaxaca; Laguna Verde and La Antigua, 
Vera Cruz; Celestin and Cozumel Island, Yucatan; Lighthouse Reef, Saddle 
Cay, and Northern Two Cays, Brit. Honduras; both coasts Guatemala). 
@ Four specimens. 
Ex- 
Locality. Wing.| Tail. | posed | Tarsus. Maat 
men. oo: 
MALES. 
Five adult males from Europe and northern Africa (7. s. 
BOM MULCO TIRES iw, ax erase xcrasincaintstsy in'5y2ia bial siaistajaes clave aiaioebgarsttualatsl aaioisuoreiars 296.8 | 141.1 53.1 26 20.7 
Five adult males from eastern United States...........-....... 278.2) 126.2 53.3 26 19.5 
FEMALES, 
Two adult females from Europe (France) (7. s. sandvicensis)...| 279.5 | 126.2 50.5 25.5 20 
Four adult females from eastern North America............... 283.5) 111.8 50.9 25.5 19 
