I 78 BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



S/>. Char., Male. — Bill, lake red; hood, grayish black; nape, 

 white, forming a sort of collar; upper parts, pearl gray; beneath, 

 white ; outer primaries, dark brown ; tail, white ; feet, black, with 

 red on the webs ; iris, dark brown. 



Length 15.50; wing 12.50; tail 5; tarsus 1.90; bill 140. 



The Laughing Gull visits San Domingo during the. summer 

 months, and probably breeds, although we were unable to find its 

 eggs, and comparatively few birds were seen. 



Subfamily, STERNID^E. 



Genus: STERNA. Linn. 

 STERNA: LINNAEUS, SYST. NAT., 1748. — SYST. NAT, /. />. 137, 1758. 



STERNA MAXIMA. Bodd. 



La Grande Hirondclle de Mer. de Cayenne. Buff., Ois., VIII. p. 346. 



Sterna maxima. Bodd., Tab!. P. E., p. 58 (1783). — Scl. and Salv., 

 P. Z. S., 1 87 1, p. 567. — Saunders, P. Z. S., 1S7S, p. 655. — 

 Colics, Check List, 2d ed., No. 794 (1882). — Bel, Bwr. and 

 Ridgw., Hist N. Am. W. Bds., II. p. 284 (18S4). 



Sterna cayenhensis. Gmel., Syst. Nat., I. p. 604 (178S). 



Sterna cayana. Lath., Ind. Orn., II. p. 804 (1790). — Nutt., Man., 

 II. p. 26S (1834). — Aud., Bds. Am., VII. p. 76, pi. 429 (1844). 



Sterna galericulata. Licht, Verz. Doubl., 1823, p. Si. 



Sterna erythrorhynchus. Wied., Beitr., IV. p. 857 (1833). 



Sterna cristata. Sw., B. W. Afr., II. p. 247, pi. 30 (1837). 



