534 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Breeding in interior and western districts of United States and 
Canada, northward to southwestern British Columbia, Mackenzie 
(Great Slave Lake) and southern Keewatin, eastward to eastern 
Ontario (Lansdowne; Kingston; near Toronto; Point Pelee) and 
western Pennsylvania (Cedar Point, Erie County), southward to 
southern California (Riverside County), Nevada, Utah, Colorado, 
Kansas, northern Missouri, northern Illinois, and northern Ohio; 
migrating southward over Mexico:and Central America to Duteh 
Guiana (Suriném), Peru (Callao Bay), and, Chile; occasional during 
fall migration along or near Atlantic coast, from Nova Scotia, Prince 
Edward Island, and Maine southward, and in West Indies (Cuba; 
Jamaica; Porto Rico) and Bermudas; accidental (2) in Yukon Val- 
ley, Alaska (Fort Yukon). 
[Sterna] surinamensis Guutin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 604 (Surinam; based on 
l’Hirondelle de Mer: la gran espece Fermin, Descr. Surinam, ii, 1769, 187; 
Surinam Tern Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, iii, pe. 2, 1785, 352).—LatHam, 
Index Orn., ii, 1790, 804. 
Sterna surinamensis Vrz1ttot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 177. 
Hydrochelidon surinamensis Saunpers, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxv, 1896, 20.— 
GRINNELL, Pacific Coast Avif., no. 3, 1902, 14 (California range).—SaLvin 
and GopMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves., iii, 1903, 398.—CarRiker, Ann. 
Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 414 (Costa Rica). 
[ Hydrochelidon] surinamensis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 773.—Gray, 
Hand-list, iii, 1871, 122, no. 11074.—SHarpz, Hand-list, i, 1899, 134.—Forszs 
and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 53. 
Hydrochelidon lariformis surinamensis Ripaway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 
Aug. 24, 1880 (Cat. N. Am. Birds), 208; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 693. 
Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis SteINEGER, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., v, June 5, 
1882, 40.—AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Unton, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed., 
1895, no. 77; 3rd ed., 1910, p. 47.—Bairp, Brewer, and Ripeway,,. Water 
Birds N. Am., ii, 1884, 318.—Frrrari-Perez, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., ix, 
1886, 179 (Laguna de San Baltazar and Laguna de Chapulco, Puebla).— 
Netson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 60 (Fort Yukon, breeding).— 
Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 79 (West Indian localities and references); Birds West 
Ind., 1889, 280; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 83 (Cuba; Jamaica; Porto Rico).— 
Tuompson, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 470 (Manitoba, breeding; 
habits; ete.).—Hircucocx, Auk, ix, 1892, 71 (Prince Edward Island, Sept. 
13, 1887).—Ruoaps, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 101 (Corpus Christi, 
Texas).—CiarkeE, Auk, xiv, 1897, 411 (Lansdowne and Kingston, Ontario, 
breeding). Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, no. 1, 1902, 26 (San 
Jose del Cabo, Lower California, Sept. 6, 17)—Tavrerner and Swazes, 
Wilson Bull., no. 59, 1907, 51 (Point Pelee, Ontario, common summer 
resident).—Presiz, North Am. Fauna, no. 27, 1908, 274 (breeding n. 
to Great Slave Lake).—Kermopz, Provincial Mus., 1909, 25 (Sumas, 
Okanagan Lake, Burrard Inlet, Fraser River, and interior Brit. Colum- 
bia).—Jonzs, Wilson Bull., xxi, 1909, 71 (Cedar Point, Erie Co. Penn- 
sylvania, breeding).—Puiirr, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 313 (Pamlico Sound, 
North Carolina, 2 specs., June 25).—Fuemine, Auk, xxx, 1913, 225 (near 
Toronto, Ontario, breeding).—GRINNELL, Pacific Coast Avif., no. 11, 1915, 25 
(California: breeding locally s. to Riverside Co.).—Wertmore, Bull. 326, 
U.S. Dept. Agric., 1916, 46 (Porto Rico, 1 record). 
