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feather edgings; the white bar on lesser coverts more or less broken 

 by dusky markings; the median and greater coverts darker, duller, 

 more brownish, and less uniform, being in places irregularly barred or 

 mottled with dusky, and the tips of the greater coverts broadly white, 

 forming a conspicuous wing-bar, this set off proximally from the 

 remaining portion of the coverts by a narrow dusky bar. 



Measurements of the two adults from the Tambelan Islands are 

 as follows : 



Measurements of spech:iciis of Orthorhamiihun ntagnirontris scominophorus. 



• Measured in the flesh bv the collector. 



rype. 



Family LARIDAE. 



STERNA ANAETHETA ANAETHETA Scopoll. 



Sterna Anaethctu^ ScoroLi, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., pt. 2, 1786, p. 92 

 (Panay Island, Philippine Islands). 



Five specimens: 



Adult male. No. 170892, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Mandariki, August 14, 

 1899. Length in flesh, 406 mm. "Bill and feet black; inside of 

 mouth white." 



Adult male, No. 170896, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Mandariki, August 14, 

 1899. Length in flesh, 407 mm. " Feet black; iris dark brown; bill 

 black, extreme tip white." 



Adult male, No. 170895, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Mandariki, August 14, 

 1899. Length in flesh, 394 mm. 



Adult female. No. 170894, U.S.N.M. ; Pulo Mandariki, August 14, 

 1899. Length in flesh, 394 mm. 



Adult female. No. 170893, U.S.N.M. ; Pulo Mandariki, August 14, 

 1899. Length in flesh, 406 mm. 



All are in good plumage ; and they belong apparently to the typical 

 race of Sterna anaetheta. Doctor Abbott says that this species was 

 present in great numbers on the two Rocky Islets. It evidently 

 breeds there abundantly, although the breeding season was past at 

 this time (August 14). 



