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HIT. Sterna sinensis tormenti sul)>ii. n. 



Western White-shafted Ternlet. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 13U (pars). 



Differs from >S'. s. placens in having the iniiuarirs lij;hter. 



Type: Point Torment, Nortli-West Austnilia, No. S.iSO. 



Hange: Nortli-West Australia. 



168. Sterna sumatrana Kempi siilis[i. u. 

 Australian Black-uaped Tern. 

 Mathews, HamUist No. 131. 



Differs from .S". s. sumatrana Raffles, in being smaller (wing 198 mm.) ami in 

 having the onter web of the first primary darker. 

 Type : Torres Straits, No. 3754. 

 Range : North Queensland. 



Genus FBOCELSTEBN'A. 



Procehterna Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool. Ois. 1842. pi. 29. 

 Type (by monotypy) : P. cerulea (Bennett). 



169. Procelsterna cerulea cinerea. 



Anous cinereiis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lund.) 184."). p. lo4 (lK4iJ) : North-East Coasts, Australia. 



Synonym : 



Procelsterna iilbiritta Bonaparte, Com]>tes Reiiilus Sci. (Paris) vol. xlii. p. 77.3. IS")!!. 



Grey Noddy. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 132. 



Range : Eastern Australian 8eas. 



Genus.JLlfOUS. 



Aiioiis Stephens, in Shaw's Geii. Zool. vol. xiii. pt. i. p. 13;'. 1826. 

 Type (by subs, desig.): A. stolidxs (Linne). 



170. Anous stolidus pileatus. 



^lernii pilrala Scopoli, Del Faun. Flnr. Iiisnhr. pt. ii. p. 02. 178i; ; Philippine Islands. 



Synonyms : 



Sleriin jjhilhi/iliia Latham. Index Oniitli. vol. ii. p. Silf). 178(i ) r.. .|. t i j 



J"lhilippine Islands 

 Sternii pliiliji/ien.si.H Bonnnterre, Tabl. Eiii'i/el. Melliod. <_)rn. vol. i. p 100. 17'.ll ) ri - 



Anounfratrr Coues, /'jv,c. Jr. Nat. fie. Pliilad. p. y58. 1862 : Pacific Ocean. 

 Australian Noddy. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 133. 

 Range: Anstralia to the Philipjiinc Islands. 



171. Anous tenuirostris melanops. 



Anous uiehmops Gould, Pror. Zool. (tor. {Loud.) 184;i. p. 103 (1846) : Iluutman's .\l)i-olhos, West 

 Australia. 



Lesser Noddy. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 134. 

 Range : West Australia. 



I designate the type locality of A. tenuirostris Teram. as Seychelles (Senegal 

 is obviously incorrect). 



