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Sterna hirundo.
1888,
September 22.
Head of Lake Umbagog.
After awhile six small Gulls appeared out in the lake.
We paddled out and shot a young Sterna hirundo and an adult Larus
phila. The other four were all Terns, probably S.hirundo.