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Fairy Tern (Gygis alba) 
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Current Status: Unco;;]: .on rerieert and nesting species. 
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— ■ ° r ' R a -PI^-g-l Pickering (Cassin, 1858) stages that th4&-sp«©i©s-was-e«saeH 
Fair/ Terns were common on August 26, 1839. Lister (1891) in the summer 6f 1889 
ana Correia (MS 1924) in March 1924 recorded this species as present but ra?de 
no estimate of the number present. 
Population: -£ki*s (One bird* was observed carry in, food in October^ 196ii 
^Lnaic atta^ that the species breeds on. the'island although re have never fount: a 
nest^/In keteb November 1963 there were an estimated 10 birds on the island and 
in October 1961* a fairly accurate count of the whole island revealed only 23 
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P0B8P Specimens: USNM W 3987, F, ovary 10x3 mm., wt. 103.7 gms., Oct. 2b, 196b. 
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