BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 535 
L[ydrochelidon] nigra surinamensis Ripgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 47. 
“Hidrochelidon nigra surinamensis ZeepOn, Anal, Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1888, 133 
(Punta Arenas, Costa Rica). 
[Pelodes] surinamensis Hernu and Reicuenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 356 
(Mexico). 
Chlidonias nigra surinamensis Ruoaps, Auk, xxix, April, 1912, 198, in text. 
Sterna plumbea Wiuson, Am, Orn., vii, 1813, 83, pl. 60, fig. 3 (Schuylkill River, 
Pennsylvania;=young).—Vigm.ot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 
174.—Swatnson and Ricuarpson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 415, footnote 
(crit.).—Jarping, ed. Wilson’s Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 374. 
Anous plumbea STEPHENS, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 1, 1825, 142. 
Hydrochelidon plumbea Born, Isis, 1844, 184.—LawrEnce, in Baird, Rep. Pacific 
R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 864; Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 479 (Lion Hill, Pan- 
ama); viii, 1867, 479 (vicinity New York City).—Barrp, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 
1859, no. 695.—Gunp.acu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 93 (Cuba; crit.).—BLaxKIs- 
TON, Ibis, 1862, 10 (Saskatchewan).—Covzs and Prentiss, An. Rep. Smith- 
son. Inst, for 1861 (1862), 176 (District of Columbia).—Scratrgr and Satvin, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 373 (Brit. Honduras).—Sctiatrr, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1864, 179 (City of Mexico),—Px.Lzsun, Reis. ‘Novara’, Vég., 1865, 
155 (Chile).—Dresssr, Ibis, 1866, 45 (s. Texas).—Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 
12.—WuearTon, Outro Agric. Rep., 1860, no. 277 (Ohio). 
A[ydrochelidon] plumbea Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 660. 
[Hydrochelidon] plumbea Gunpiac#, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 346 (Cuba). 
Hydrochelid [on] plumbea GunvtacH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1871, 294 (Cuba). 
Sterna nigra (not of Linneeus, 1758) SaBine (J.), App. Franklin’s Journ., 1823, 
694.—Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1828, 355.—Swarnson and RicHarp- 
son, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 415.—Nurratt, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 
Water Birds, 1834, 282.—AupusBon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 535, pl. 280; v, 
1839, 642; Synopsis, 1839, 320; Birds Am., 8vo. ed., vii, 1844, 116, pl. 488.— 
GirAUD, Birds Long Island, 1844, 352.—LemBrye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 
1850, 124.—A1xeEn, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1872, 210 (Colorado). 
S[terna] nigra Bonaparte, Obs. Nomencl. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [211].— 
Maximmian, Journ. fir Orn., 1859, 258.—Newron (A. and E.), Handb. 
Jamaica, 1881, 117. ' 
Hydrochelidon nigrum Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 61.—Gossz, 
"Birds Jamaica, 1847, 437. 
Hydrochelidon nigra CaBaNis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1857, 232 (Cuba).—ALBRECHT, 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 207 (Jamaica).—SauNpDErRs, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1876, 642, part (monogr.).—Merrit (J. C.), Proc. U. §. Nat. Mus., i, 
1878, 172 (Fort Brown, Texas, summer),—Drane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 
v, 1880, 63 (Grand Menan, Maine, 3 specs., Aug., 1879).—Brewstzr, Bull. 
Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 125 (New Hampshire and Massachusetts records).— 
Rew, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 25, 1884, 271 (Bermuda, 1 spec., Oct., 1876). 
Sterna exilis Tscuupr, Wiegmann’s Archiv fir Naturg., ix, pt. i, 1848, 389 (coast 
of Peru;=young). 
St[erna] exilis Tscaup1, Wiegmann’s Archiv fiir Naturg., x, pt. i, 1844, 314 (Peru). 
Sterna frenata (not of Gambel, 1848) Savin, Ibis, 1860, 278 (Coban, Guatemala; 
see Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 205). 
[Sterna] fissipes (not Linneeus, 1758) Latnam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 810, part 
(America). 
Sterna fissipes TURNBULL, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 1869, 39. 
S[terna] fissipes Ripaway, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., x, 1874, 392 (Illinois). 
