Annual report . ical with the Old World fonn. Ourbird breeds as far north as South Carolina, and has wandered up the coast BIRDS OF NEW YORK 141 to Massachusetts. As a New York species it rests on the record of Lawrence,[Lye. N. Y., Ann. 1866. 8: 299]; and DeKay, page 303, who states thatit has occurred on our coast. Sterna trudeaui AudubonTrudeau Tern Sterna trudeaui Audubon. Ornithological Biographies. 1839. 5: 125, pi. 409 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. [68] trudeaui, of Dr James Trudeau Distinctive marks. Bill yellow at base and tip with a broad black bandbetween; feet reddish; head
Annual report . ical with the Old World fonn. Ourbird breeds as far north as South Carolina, and has wandered up the coast BIRDS OF NEW YORK 141 to Massachusetts. As a New York species it rests on the record of Lawrence,[Lye. N. Y., Ann. 1866. 8: 299]; and DeKay, page 303, who states thatit has occurred on our coast. Sterna trudeaui AudubonTrudeau Tern Sterna trudeaui Audubon. Ornithological Biographies. 1839. 5: 125, pi. 409 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. [68] trudeaui, of Dr James Trudeau Distinctive marks. Bill yellow at base and tip with a broad black bandbetween; feet reddish; head white with a narrow slaty black bar on its sidespassing through the eye; the rest of the plumage uniformly pale pearl-color; except the rump, tail, underwings, tips and inner veins of the second-aries, and the shafts of the primaries together with spaces on their innerveins, which are white. Length 14 inches; wing ; tail , forked ; bill ; depthof bill .38; tarsus .9; middle toe and claw Xrpper figure, Forster tern. Sterna forsteri Nuttall. Lower figure, Trudeau tern. Sterna trudeaui Audu-bon. From Audubon, Birds of America 142 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM The Trudeau, or White-headed tern, is an interesting neotropical species,which has been taken once on Long Island, as reported by Audubon in InsSynopsis of the Birds of Nortli America, page 319, and in the OrnithologicalBiography, volume 5, page 125, also in Girauds Birds of Long Island, page354. The record is also credited b} Baird, Brewer and Ridgwa)% WaterBirds, vohinic 2, page 291, and Chapmans Hand Book, page 80, and Cham-berlain, Revised Edition of Niittall, page 228. Audubons type specimen isin the Giraud Collection, Vassar College Museum. It was collected byDr Trudeau at Absecum Beach, Egg Harbor, N. J. Unfortunately theincidents and dates connected with the capture of the Long Island specimenwere not definitely recorded, but there is no reason to believe that Audubonwas mistaken regarding the ident
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