211. Hydrochelidon lariformis. Black Tern.— Mr. Thomas B. Osborne 
of New Haven, Conn., has recently sent me a skin of a young Tern of 
this species that he killed at Schroon Lake (in Warren and Essex Coun¬ 
ties) on the 18th of August, 1876. Mr. Osborne writes me: “I killed 
three Terns at Schroon Lake out of a flock of perhaps half a dozen. They 
were all in the same plumage as the one I send you [which is a young-of- 
the-year bird]. I have been at Schroon Lake four Augusts but never saw 
any Terns there, of this or other species, excepting the flock from which 
these specimens were procured.” 
Auk, I, Jan,, 1884. p. if. 
Birds of Oneida County, New York. 
Egbert Bagg. 
Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis.—Given in the list on the authority 
of others only. One in the collection of Alex. Moore of Utica, identified 
by the writer, was taken at Utica in April, 1893. 
Auk XI. April. 1894 p. 103 
July 29. Saw six Black Terns, off Ram Island Shoals, 
first ones observed alive by me. Shot two in the same lo- 
cality a few days later. 
The Black Tern (Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis') in New York 
Harbor. — On August 31, 1899, five Black Terns were shot at Bedloes 
Island, New York Harbor. The two that I skinned, both males, had 
been eating small fish. Others of the same species were seen subse¬ 
quently in the same locality at about same date.—L. S. Foster, Ne-iv 
York City. 
Auk, XVI, Oct., 1899, p . 3S"/. 
