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also along Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States, locally, from 
New Jersey (Seven Mile Beach) and Virginia (Cobbs Island, etc.), 
to Texas (Galveston Bay; Fort Brown); casual northward to Massa- 
chusetts (Ipswich Beach, Sept., 1870); wintering from southern 
California, Gulf coast, and coast of South Carolina southward to 
Guatemala (Lake of Duefias) and along Pacific coast to Sinaloa 
(Mazatlan, Oct. to April) and Oaxaca (San Mateo; Ventosa Bay, 
Dec., Feb.); accidental off coast of Brazil (off Pernambuco). 
Sterna hirundo (Variety) Forster, Philos. Trans., lxii, 1772, 421 (Churchill 
River?, Hudson Bay). 
[Sterna hirundo] 8. LatHam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 808 (cites Sterna hirundo, 
var. Forster). 
Sterna hirundo (not of Linnzus) Swainson and Ricuarpson, Fauna Bor.-Am., 
ii, 1831, 412 (Saskatchewan River). 
Sterna forsteri Nurratt, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 274, 
footnote (Saskatchewan River; based on 8. hirundo Swainson and Richard- 
son).—Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., v, 1852, 222 (California; crit.); viii, 
1867, 299 (vicinity New York City); in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Swrv., 
ix, 1858, 862; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 318 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Oct. 
to April); Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 51 (San Mateo and Ventosa Bay, 
Oaxaca, Dec., Feb.).—Barrp, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 691.—Covzs, 
Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 544 (monogr.); 1866, 99 (Arizona); 1871, 
44 (Fort Macon, North Carolina); Ibis, 1864, 390 (Lake of Duefias, Guate- 
mala); Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 308 (New England); Check List, 1873, 
no. 566; 2d ed., 1882, no. 798; Birds Northwest, 1874, 676.—ScHLEGEL, 
Mus. Pays-Bas., vi, no. 24 (Sternae), 1864, 19—Satvin, Ibis, 1866, 199 
(Duefias, Guatemala).—Etirot, New and Unfig. N. Am. Birds, i, 1869, Introd. 
(tail figured).—Sciater and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 569 (mon- 
ogr.).—Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 12 (migrant).—Merriam, Sixth Am. Rep. 
U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1873, 704 (Marsh Creek, Idaho, breeding).—HEn- 
sHAw, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. xi, 1875, 13 (marshes of Great Salt Lake, Utah, breed- 
ing); Rep. Zool. Exped. 100th Merid., 1875, 486 (Utah Lake, Utah, breeding).— 
SaunpErs, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, 65 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., xxv, 1896, 46 (Lake of Duefias, Guatemala, Oct. 28; Tehuantepec: 
Oaxaca, Feb.; at sea 200-300 miles off Pernambuco, Brazil, etc.).—Jouy, 
Field and Forest, 1877, 181 (District Columbia).—Ripeway, Bull. Essex 
Inst., v, 1873, 173 (Great Salt Lake, Utah, breeding); Orn. Fortieth Parallel, 
1877, 639 (Sacramento, California, June; Pyramid, Ruby, and Franklin 
Lakes and Humboldt marshes, Nevada, breeding; Great Salt Lake, Utah, 
breeding); Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 208; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 
no. 685.—Srnnett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 65 
(Galveston, Texas, breeding; habits)—Mrrritt, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., i, 
1878, 172 (Fort Brown, Texas, breeding; descr. nest and eggs).—RoBERTS 
and Bzunnezr, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 20 (Grant and Traverse Coun- 
ties, Minnesota, breeding).—Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 
126 (Cobbs Island, Virginia, breeding); Auk, vi, 1889, 66 (near Chatham, 
Massachusetts, Oct. 2, 1888; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, no. 1, 1902, 25 
(San José del Cabo, Lower California, Dec. 15 to May 17).—NEHRLING, 
Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 225 (coast of s. e. Texas, breeding).— 
Butpine, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., v. 1883, 546 (Cape San Lucas district, 
Lower California).—Barrp, Brewer, and Ripaway, Water Birds North 
Am., ii, 1884, 292—Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 18 (Colorado, up to 6,000 ft.).— 
