BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERIOA, 523 
of Aruba and Bonaire, Dutch West Indies, Trinidéd, Margarita 
Island, off Venezuela, and coast of northeastern Brazil (Piauhy, etc.) ; 
occurs occasionally in winter on coast of western and southwestern 
Africa, 
[Sterna] minuta (not of Linneeus) Laruam, Index Orm., ii, 1790, 809, part 
(America). 
Sterna minuta Wirson, Am. Orn., vii, 1818, 80, pl. 60, fig. 2—BonaparrTs, 
Ann, Lyc. N, Y., ii, 1828, 355.—Jarpine, ed. Wilson’s Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 
371.—AupuBON, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 175, pl. 319; Synopsis, 1839, 321; 
Birds Am., 8vo. ed., vii, 1844, 119, pl. 439.—Grraup, Birds Long Island, 1844, 
350.—LempBeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 123.—Purnam, Proc. Essex 
Inst., i, 1856, 221 (Massachusetts) —SHarpe, Ibis, 1872, 74 (Nagua River, 
Fantee, w. Africa). 
S[terna] minuta Bonaparte, Obs. Nomencl. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [208]. 
Sterna argentea (not of Maximilian, 1820) Nurraun, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Can., 
Water Birds, 1834, 280.—Bonapartz, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 61.— 
Gossz, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 437.—AtBrecut, Journ. fir Orn., 1862, 207 
(Jamaica) —Léoraup, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 545. 
(?) Sternula bailloni Bors, Isis, 1844, 183 (Newfoundland). 
Sternula antillarum Lesson, Compl. Oeuvres Buffon, xx, or Descr. Mam. et 
Ois., 1847, 256 (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles; = young).— Gunpiacu, Journ. 
fir Orn., 1871, 294.(Cuba). 
Sternula antillarum antillarum OppraouseR, Auk, xxxiv, April, 1917, 199. 
Sterna antillarum Couss, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 552 (monogr.); This, 
1864, 390 (Glovers Reef, Brit. Honduras; crit.); Proc. Fssex Inst., v, 1868, 
308 (New England, breeding); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1871, 45 (Fort 
Macon, North Carolina, breeding); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xii, 1868, 126 
(South Carolina).—Satvin, Ibis, 1864, 384 (Long Cay, Brit. Honduras); 
1866, 199 (Long Cay and Grassy Cay, Brit. Honduras; crit.),—LAWRENCE, 
Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1864, 106 (Sombrero, Lesser Antilles); Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 68 (Dominica).—GunpLacu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1875, 391 
(Cuba; babits); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 412 (Porto Rico).— 
Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 98 (Santo Domingo).—SciaTEeR 
and Satvin, Proc: Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 571 (monogr.).—SaunvErs, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, 661, part (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxv, 
1896, 122, part (Ipswich, Massachusetts, June, July; Nantucket, Massachu- 
setts; Bone Island and Cobbs Island, Virginia, June, July; Capers Island, 
South Carolina; Brownsville and Corpus Christi, Texas, May; Antigua; 
Barbados; Venezuela; Long Cay, Glovers Reef, Brit. Honduras; Nagua 
River, Fantee, w. Africa).—Msrritu (J. C.), Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 
172 (Fort Brown, Texas, breeding).—Scortt, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 
227 (Long Beach, New Jersey, breeding); Auk, ‘vii, 1890, 306 (Dry Tortugas, 
Florida, breeding).—Ripaway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880 (Cat. N. 
Am. Birds), 208, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 690, part.—Barrp, 
Brewer, and Ripaway, Water Birds N. Am., ii, 1884, 309, part.—Cory, 
Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 179; Auk, v, 1888, 79 (West Indian localities 
and references); Birds West Ind., 1889, 280; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 83 
(Abaco, New Providence, Andros, Great Inagua, and Cay Sal islands, 
Bahamas; Cuba; Jamaica; Haiti; Porto Rico; St. Bartholomew; Antigua; 
Guadeloupe; Dominica; Barbados).—Aqarrssore, Auk, ii, 1885, 289 (s. e. 
South Dakota, breeding).—Goss, Auk, iii, 1886, 115 (Kansas, breeding); 
Birds Kansas, 1886, 3—RatpH and Baaa, Trans. Oneida Hist. Soc., iii, 
