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Catalogue of British Columbia Birds by Francis Kermode
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Taken at Okanagan Lake, September 9th, 1897. (_Brooks_.)

STERNA Linnaeus.

32. Common Tern.

_Sterna hirundo_ (Linn.).

One specimen shot at Cowichan Gap by R. D. McClure, September 15th,
1896, and presented to the Museum.

33. Arctic Tern.

_Sterna paradisaea_ (Brunn.).

From Dease Lake south, through the interior of the Mainland to
Okanagan Lake. Two specimens--one taken at Dease Lake by James Porter,
and another shot at Okanagan Lake by A. C. Brooks, September, 1807.

HYDROCHELIDON Boie.

34. Black Tern.

_Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis_ (Gmel.).

Not common. I observed it at Okanagan, June, 1895. Taken at Sumas and
Okanagan Lake by A. C. Brooks, Burrard Inlet, Eraser River and
interior of Mainland. (_Fannin_.)

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