. Birds of Michigan. Birds. 30 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF Roseate Tern. 31-72-(800). Sterna dougalli Montag. Roseate Tekn. Rare; probably a straggler; Lake Michigan; "occasional visitor"(Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); one specimen recorded in catalogue of the Birds of Michigan in the museum of Kent Scientific Institute at Grand Rapids, by E. L. Moseley; "Prof. Smith shot two from a flock of five, in Hillsdale, in the spring of 1892" (F. M. Falkner); " common on Lake Erie and Raisin River" (Jerome Trombley); "probable summer resident" (Dr. J. B. Steer
. Birds of Michigan. Birds. 30 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF Roseate Tern. 31-72-(800). Sterna dougalli Montag. Roseate Tekn. Rare; probably a straggler; Lake Michigan; "occasional visitor"(Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); one specimen recorded in catalogue of the Birds of Michigan in the museum of Kent Scientific Institute at Grand Rapids, by E. L. Moseley; "Prof. Smith shot two from a flock of five, in Hillsdale, in the spring of 1892" (F. M. Falkner); " common on Lake Erie and Raisin River" (Jerome Trombley); "probable summer resident" (Dr. J. B. Steerel. 32-74 (SOI). Sterna antillarum [Less.). Least Tern. Given in Gibbs'Birds of Michigan; "reported as a summer resident in northern Indiana'" (Butler's Birds of Ind.); "certainly breeds at St. Clair Flats" (Dr. W. C. Brownell). 33-75-(804). Sterna fuliginosa (?me/. Sooty Tern. Dr. G. W. Topping, of DeWitt. is authority for one having })een taken near DeWitt, in the spring of 1880. Coues says "along the Atlantic coast;" Ridgway says "north to Carolinas,casually to New England:" if taken in Michigan its occurence was doubtless a rare accident. Genus HYDROCHELIDON Boie. 34-77 (30(>). Hydrocheiidon nigra surinaiuensis (Gmel.). Black Tekn: Short- tailed Tern. Abundant; spring and summer; "Hillsdale ; (.\. H. Boies); "Mackinac Island " (S. E. White); taken at St. Clair Flats by W. H. Collins. (Bull. Nutt. O. Clul), Vol. V, p. 61); " common on Lake Erie and Raisin River " (Jerome Trombley); " nests on float- ing debris at St. Clair Flats " (W. A. Davidson); " common at Saginaw " (Miles' Birds of Michigan): "Kent ; (S. ); breeds; "abundant breeder in Wayne ; (B. W. Swales); "proljably raises two y)roods " (Amos W. Butler); nests about lakes in June on hummocks on the ground, often built up several inches; eggs three, greenish, "and spotted &qu
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