180 IjARIdm. 



Order GAVI-ffi. 



Family LARID^. 



Subfamily SterniNjE. 



Genus STERNA, Brisson, Ornith. vi. p. 202 (1760). 



the latinized form of the name ; cf. Frisian Stirn, Q-erm. Tanner, 

 Swedish Fhk-tarna, Norwegian Makrel-terne, our Tern and Tarney. Deri- 

 vation unknown. 



Sterna macrura. Arctic Tern. 



Sterna macrura^ Naumann, Isis, 1819, p. 1847. 



Sterna macrura, Naum. x. p. 114 ; Gould, v. pi. 72. 



Sterna arctica, Macg. v. p. 643 ; Heivitson, p. 481 ; Yarr. 



ed. 2, iii. p. 507; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 512. 

 Sterna macroura, Gray, p. 240. 



Sterna hirundo. Hurting, p. 76; Dresser, viii. p. 255. 

 The Arctic Tern, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 399. 



Macrura = long-tailed ; from iiaicpos + oiipa. 



A regular summer visitant, breeding north of the Humber, 

 and becoming more abundant iu the northern and western 

 portions of the kingdom. It inhabits the northern portions 

 of the Palfearctic and Nearctic Regions ; a straggler on 

 migration to the Neotropical and Ethiopian Regions. 



Sterna fluviatilis. Common Tern. 



Sterna fluviatilis, Naumann, Isis, 1819, p. 1848. 



Sterna hirundo, Naum. x. p. 89 ; Macg. v. p. 638 ; Hewitson, 

 p. 480; Gray, p. 240; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 504; id. 

 ed. 3, iii. p. 509; Gould, v. pi. 70. 



Sterna fluviatilis, Harting, p. 75 ; Dresser, viii. p. 263. 



The Common Tern, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 396. 



Fluviatilis = of or belonging to a river, fluvltis. 



A regular and generally distributed visitant to the coasts 



