2 78 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



p. S2 (Jamaica). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 210 (iSSo). — Wells, 

 List Eds. Grenada, p. 11 (1886). 

 Gelochclidon caycnnensis Brewer, Pr. Best. Sec. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 30S 

 (1S60) (Cuba). 



Bahamas and Antilles. 



Sterna sandvicensis acuflavida. 



Sterna cantiaca Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 606 (1788) ?— Cory, Bds. Bahama 



I, p. 211 (1880) ; ih. List Bds. W. I. p. 33 (18S5). 

 Sterna actiflatnda Cabot, Pr. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist. II, p. 257 (1847). — 



Bryant, ib. VII, p. 134 (1859) (Bahamas). 

 Thalasseus acujtavidus Brewer, Pr. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 

 • (i860) (Cuba).— GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 392 (iS56); 



ib. J. f. O. 1874, p. 314 (Porto Rico) ; ib. 1875, p. 390 (Cuba) ; ib. 



Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 411 (1878) (Porto Rico). 

 Thalasseus acuflavida GuNDL. J. f. O. 1S62, p. 94 (Cuba). 

 Sterna sandvicensis acuflavida Ridgw. Water Bds. N. Am. II, p. 288 



(1884). 



Bahamas and Antilles. 



Sterna hirundo Linn. 



Sterna hirundo Linn. Syst. Nat. I, ed. 10, p. 137 (175S) ; ib. ed. 12, p. 227 

 (iy66).— Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 211 (1880) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. 



p. 33 C1885). 

 Sterna 7v/7.fo««' Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 134 (1859) (Ba- 

 hamas.) 



Accidental in the Bahama Islands. 



Sterna anosthaetus Scop. 



Sterna anosthcBtus ScoP. Del. Faun, et Flor. Ins. II, No. 72 (1786). 

 Haliplana discolor CouES, Ibis, 1S64, p. 392.— Lawk. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



VIII, p. 104 (1867) (Sombrero). 

 Sterna auosthceta Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 215 (1880); ib. List Bds. 



W. I. p. 33 (18S5).— Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 11 (1SS6). 

 Haliplana anastheta Gundl. J. f. O- 1S81, p 400 (Cuba). 



Sp. Char. — Bill black; cap black; forehead white, extending like two 

 horns over each eye and reaching behind them ; upper back grayish, 

 shading into the white on the sides of the neck; upper plumage 

 grayish brown; underparts white; primaries dark brown, the first 



