96 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



=Sterna striata striata Gmelin. See Mathews, Birds of Australia 2 : 368- 

 369, 1912. 



15698. Adult (sex not indicated). Bay of Islands, North Island, New 

 Zealand. March 18 — . Original number 727. U.S. Exploring Ex- 

 pedition (1838-1842). 

 Sterna melaiiauclien provida Oberholser 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 98: 16, June 30, 1917. 



=Sterna sumatrana mathewsi Stresemann. See Peters, Checklist of 

 birds of the world 2: 336, 1934. 



128756. Adult male. Providence Island (lat. 9°00' S., long. 51°00' E.), 

 western Indian Ocean. August 17, 1892. Collected by William L. 

 Abbott. 

 Sterna aleutiea Baird 



Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci. 1: 321, pi. 31, fig. 1 (not earlier than Octo- 

 ber 22), 1869. 



52517. Adult male. Kodiak Island, Gulf of Alaska, Alaska. June 1-, 

 1868. Collected by Ferdinand Bischoff. Original number 16. 



This name first appeared as a nomen nudum used by Dall, in Dall and 

 Bannister (Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci. 1:307, 1869). 

 Sterna lunata Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamra. and Orn.) : 277, "pi. LXXIV, fig. 

 1," 1848. 



15744. Adult (sex not indicated). Vincennes Island=Kauehi Island 

 (about lat. 16°00' S., long. 145°09' W.), Tuamotu Islands, Oceania. 

 September 2, 1839. Original number 725. U.S. Exploring Expe- 

 dition (1838-1842). 



Peale referred to "our specimens," but Cassin's MS. list indicates that he 

 saw but one, and only one was entered into the museum register. 

 H[aliplana]. discolor Coues 



Ibis (1) 6 : 392 (footnote), July-October 1864. 



=Sterna anaethetus melanoptera Swainson. See Ridgway, Birds of 

 North and Middle America 8: 512, 513, 1919; Peters, Checklist of birds 

 of the world 2: 337, footnote, 1934. 



30844. Adult (sex not indicated). Saddle Cay (an islet at the southern 

 end of Lighthouse Reef, east of Turneffe Island), in the Gulf of Hon- 

 duras, off British Honduras. May 10, 1862. Collected by Osbert 

 Salvin. Original number 2925. 



If it should ever be shown that the Caribbean race is distinct from the 

 West African, Coues's name will have priority over Mathews's recognita. 

 Sterna anaethela nelsoni Ridgway 



Birds of North and Middle America 8: 487 (in key) , 514, June 26, 1919. 



=Sterna anaethetus nelsoni Ridgway. See Peters, Checklist of birds of 

 the world 2: 338,1934. 



