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MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One purchased with the Holman collection, said to have been 

 taken on Lake Erie ; also one egg from the Bahamas. 



67. Cabot's Tern. 



Sterna sandvicensis acuflavida (Cabot) Ridgw. 1884. 



Accidental along the Great Lakes. 



In the spring of 1882 Dr. Garnier noticed three individuals of 

 this species coursing around a mill-pond not far from his resi- 

 dence at Lucknow, Ont. He shot one and the writer saw it after 

 it was mounted. {Mcllwraith.) 



-69. Forster's Tern. 



Sterna forsteri Nutt. 1834. 



Only a casual visitor on Lake Ontario in spring and fall. {Mc- 

 llwraith.) Common ; breeds abundantly on St. Clair Flats. 

 (Saunders & Morden.) Summer resident about the large lakes 

 of Manitoba ; nesting among the reeds. {Thompson^ In the 

 summer of 1881 the writer found them abundant on lakes Mani- 

 toba, Water-hen and Winnipegoosis where they were breeding in 

 numbers in the bordering marshes. West of Manitoba their place 

 is chiefly taken by the Common Tern, as only one pair was seen 

 by Spreadborough at Indian Head in a residence of three months 

 in 1892. None have been noted further west. Richardson say^s 

 they extend northerly to lat. 57°. 



Breeding Notes. — On June i8th, 1894, I found an immense 

 colony of these birds breeding on an island in Shoal Lake, Man- 

 itoba. The nest was made in a hollow in the sand, and con- 

 tained three eggs, resting on a few straws. (JHppie.) It is not 

 common at St. Clair Flats, Ont., but nests have been taken there 

 by Mr. J. A. Morden, but only a few nests of this species to 

 many of the next. ( W. Saunders) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Two eggs taken by Mr. Dippie at Lake Manitoba, June 22nd, 



1893. 

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