BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 481 
Nearly cosmopolitan, but absent from colder regions; in America 
breeds northward to coast of Virginia (Cobbs Island)—formerly to 
New Jersey (Seven Mile Beach; Cape May), and along Gulf coast 
from Florida to Texas (Padre Island; Galveston Bay; Fort Brown), 
also in Bahamas, in Cuba, and on island of Mexiana, at mouth of 
Amazon River; accidental northward to Massachusetts (Ipswich, 
Sept., 1871), Maine (near Portland, March, 1885,) New Brunswick 
(Grand Menan, Aug., 1879), Ohio, and northeastern Illinois (near 
Chicago, rare straggler); ranges southward along Gulf, Caribbean, 
and Atlantic coasts to Brazil (Mexiana Island, breeding; Séo Paulo) 
and Argentina (estuary of Rio de la Plata; Bahia Blanca; Estancia 
Espartilla; Ranchos; Santa Elena, Oct.; Barracas al Sud; Luiconia) ; 
occurs also on Pacific coast of Oaxaca (Gulf of Tehuantepec; San 
Mateo) and Guatemala (Chiap4m), and in Ecuadér (Vaqueria); in 
Eastern Hemisphere northward to about lat. 55° N., from British 
Islands to eastern Siberia, southern China, etc., southward to northern 
Africa, southern Arabia, India, Ceylon, Java, Australia, and Tas- 
mania. 
Sterna nilotica Linna&us, in Hasselquist, Reis. Palist., 1762, 325 (River Nile, 
near Cairo, Egypt; not considered binomial). 
[Sterna] nilotica Gmetin, Syst. Nat., i, p. ii, 1789, 606.—Laruam, Index Orn., ii, 
1790, 806 (Egypt).—Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 119, no. 11040. 
Sterna nilotica Vinrttot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 166.—Humg, 
Stray Feath., i, 1878, 281 (Sind, India); Nests and eggs Indian Birds, 1875, 
648.—Apam, Stray Feath., i, 1873, 403 (Sambur Lake, India, winter.— 
Butter, Stray Feathers, iv, 1876, 31 (n. Guzerat, India) —ArmstRonG, Stray 
Feath., iv, 1876, 351 (Irawaddy, India).—Reicuenow, Syst. Verz. Vég. 
Deutschl., 1889, 61; Vég. Deutsch Ost-Afr., 1894, 21 (Lake Victoria 
Nyanza).—Frivatpsxy, Av. Hung., 1891, 179—Mapardsz, Ausst. Ung. 
Vogelf., 1891, 120.—Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb., 1891, 240. 
Lar[opis] nilotica WacuER, Isis, 1832, 1225. 
Gelochelidon nilotica Stesnecer, Auk, i, Oct., 1884, 366——AmERIcAN ORNI- 
THOLOGISTS’ Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 63; 3rd ed., 
1910, p. 42.—Satvapor1, Ucc. Ital., 1887, 279.—Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 76 
(West Indian localities and references; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 277; 
Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 82 (New Providence, Long Island, Miraporvos, 
and Great Inagua, Bahamas; Cuba; Barbados).—(?) Prnpar, Auk, vi, 1889, 
311 (Fulton Co., Kentucky, summer resident ¢).—Suicx, Auk, vii, 1890, 
327 (Seven Mile Beach, New Jersey, breeding).—Ruoaps, Proc. Ac. Nat. 
Sci. Phila., 1892, 101 (Corpus Christi, Texas, breeding)—Bryer, Proc. 
Louis. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 86 (coast Louisiana, breeding) —HartTert, 
Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 604 (near Vaqueria, n. w. Ecuador, Sept.).— ALLEN 
(G.M.), Auk, xxv, 1908, 234 (near Portland, Maine, March, 1885).—DaBBENE, 
Orn, Argentina, 1910, 210 (estuary of Rio de la Plata; Estancia Espartilla, 
Buenos Aires). 
Gelochelidon nilotica nilotica MatuEws, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 1912, 
330 (Europe; n. Africa in winter). — 
a Extremely doubtful. 
40017—19—Bull. 50, pt 8—-382 
