Sterna T>aradisaea. 
Lake Umbagog. 
190S r 
June 15 During the passage of the Lake in the steainerj I saw 
. . . three Terns flying about .... between the Outlet and Pine 
Point. The . . birds were on wing over the same stretch of water 
when our boat returned from Sunday Cove. I saw them sweep close 
to the surface repeatedly no doubt to pick up small dead fish. 
Once when they came within 100 yards I made out very distinctly 
the dark., almost sooty, cast of the under parts which distinguish 
es S. naradisaea from S. hirundo and this induced me to refer them 
all, without much hesitation, to the former species.. 
