Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 2 70 



and second showing a clear band of white on the inner webs, not 

 reaching within an inch of the tips, and gradually fading on the 

 others; upper tail-coverts slatj graj ; outer tail-feathers rt/«?<75/ e«- 

 tirely -white, showing a tinge of brownish near the tip ; legs and 

 feet black ; iris brown. 



Length, 14.25; wing, 10.00; tail, 6.25; tarsus, .70; bill, 1.50. 



Common in the Bahama Islands; breeds, Cuba, Sombrero; 

 probably occurs throughout the West Indies. 



Sterna fuliginosa Gmel. 



Sterna fuliginosa Gmel. Sjst. Nat. I, p, 605 (1788). — D'Orb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 319 (1840). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 134 (1859) (Bahamas) ; ib. XI, p. 98 (1867) 

 (San Domingo). — Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 589 

 (St. Bartholomew) ; ib. p. 603 (Porto Rico). — Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. I, p. 68 (1878) (Dominica) ; ib. p. 277 (Grenada); ib. p. 462 

 (Guadeloupe). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 214(1880). — A. & E. 

 Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (1881). — Cory, Bds. Haiti & 

 San Domingo, p. 181 (1885); «'*• List Bds. W. L p. ^t, (1S85).— 

 Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 11 (18S6). 



Hydrochclido7i fuliginosa Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 433 (1847). — Brewer, Pr. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 308 (i860) (Cuba).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 

 1862, p. 207 (Jamaica). 



Onychoprion fuliginosus A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 371 (St. Croix) . J* 

 — Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, i860, p. 379 (St. Thomas). 



Haliplana fuliginosa GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 393 (1866) ; 

 ib. J. f. O. 187s, p. 393 (Cuba) ; ib. 1878, p. 163 (Porto Rico) ; ib. 

 Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 414 (1878) (Porto Rico). 



Bahamas and Antilles. 



Sterna dougalli Mont. 



Sterna dougalli "Most. Orn. Diet. Suppl. (1813). — Sundev. Oefv. 



Vet. Akad. For. 1S69, p. 589 (St. Bartholomew). — Lawr. Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S8 (187S) (Dominica) ; ib. p. 238 (Antigua) ib. p. 



277 (Grenada); ib. p. 360 (Martinique); ib. p. 462 (Guadeloupe). 



—Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 33 (1885).- Wells, List Bds. Grenada, 



p. II (1886). 

 Sterna paradisca Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 392 (1866); ib. 



J. f. O. 1875, p. 391 (Cuba) ; ib. 1878, p. 163 (Porto Rico) ; ib. Anal. 



Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 411 (1878) (Porto Rico).— Cory, Bds. 



Bahama I. p. 212 (iS8o). 



Common throughout the West Indies. 



