28o Cory on the Biiuh of the lies/ Indies. 



Sterna antillarum (Less.). 



Stertiula atitillarum I^ess. Descr. Mam. et Ois. p. 256 (1847). 



Sterna argcntca GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 437 (2S47). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 



1S62, p. 207 (Jamaica). 

 Sterna miniita Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 123 (1850). 

 Sternula frenata Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 30S (1S60) 



(Cuba).— GuxDL. J. f. O. 1862, p. 93 (Cuba). 

 Sterna antillarum Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 393 (1866). — 



Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 98 (1867) (San Domingo). 



— Gundl. J. f. O. 1S74, p. 314 (Porto Rico);/^. 1875, p. 391 (Cuba) ; 



lb. 187S, p. 163 (Porto Rico) ; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, 



p. 412 (1S7S) (Porto Rico). — Saunders, P. Z. S. 1S76, p. 661 



(Antilles).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 68 (187S) (Dominica). 



— A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (1S81). — Cory, Bds. 



Haiti & San Domingo, p. 179 (1SS5) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 33 



(1885). 

 Sterna minuta amcricana Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 5S9 



(St. Bartholomew). 

 Sterna siiperciliaris Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 213 (1880). 



Bahamas and Antilles. 



Genus Hydrochelidon Bom. 



Hydrochelidon Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 563. 



Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis (Gmel.). 



Rallus lariformis Linn Sjst. Nat. I, loth ed. p. 153 (1758) .-* 

 Sterna surinamensis Gmel. S\'st. Nat. I, 2nd part, p. 604 (17SS). 

 Hydrochelidon nigra GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 437 (1847). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 



1862, p. 207 (Jamaica). — Saunders, P. Z. S. 1S76, p. 642 (W. I.). — 



A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (1881). 

 Sterna nigra Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 124 (1S50). 

 Hydrochelidon Surinam Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 30S 



(1S60) (Cuba). 

 Hydrochelidon plumbea GuNDL. J. f. O. 1862. p. 93 (Cuba). 

 Hydrochelidon fissipes Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 393 (1866) ; 



ib. J. f. O. 1S75, p. 393 (Cuba) ; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, 



p. 413 (187S) (Porto Rico). 

 Hydrochelidon lariformis CouES, Bds. N. W. p. 704 (1874). — Cory, List 



Bds.^W. L p. 34 (1885). 

 Hydrochelidon tiigra surinamensis Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V, p. 40 



(1882). 



Antilles in winter. 



Hydrochelidon leucopareia (Natt.) is given by Mr. Ridgway as 

 accidental in the West Indies, (Ridgw. Man. N. A. Bds. p. 47, 1887.) 



