ORDER LONGIPENNES. 



[B 689, C 565, R 686, C 797.] 



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Geog. Dist. — Greater part of the northern hemisphere and Africa. 

 In North America chiefly east of the Plains, breeding from the 

 Arctic coast, somewhat irregularly, to Florida, Texas, and Arizona, , 

 and wintering northward to Virginia. Also coast of Lower California. 



71. Sterna paradisaea Brunn. 



Arctic Tern. 



Sterna paradiscea Brijnn. Orn. Bor. 1764, 46. 



[B 690, 693, C 567, 568, R 687, C 799.] 



Geog. Dist. — Northern hemisphere ; in North America breeding 

 from Massachusetts to the Arctic regions, and wintering southward 

 to Virginia and California. 



72. Sterna dougalli Montag. 



Roseate Tern. 



Sterna dougalli M-O^tag. Orn. Diet. Suppl. 1813, — . 



[B 692, C 569, R 688, C 800.J 



Geog. Dist. — Temperate and tropical regions ; north on the 

 Atlantic coast of North America to Massachusetts, and casually to 

 Maine and Nova Scotia. 



73. Sterna aleutica Baird. 



Aleutian Tern. 



Sterna aleutica Baird, Tr. Chicago Ac. Nat. Sci. I. 1869, 321, 

 pi. 31, fig. i. 



[B— , C 572, R 689, C 803.J 



Geog. Dist. — Coast of Alaska from Kadiak to Norton Sound. 



Subgenus STERNTJLA Boie. 

 Stemula BoiE, Isis, 1822, 563. Type, Sterna minuta Linn. 



