532 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Pelodes] indica Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 356. 

 Sterna leucoptera [lapsus for S. leucopareia] Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 622 



(Cap3 Good Hope).— Buckley, Ibis, 1874, 391 (Transvaal). 

 Sterna sim'dis Gray, in Hardw. Illustr. Ind. Zool., i, 1832, pi. 70, fig. 2 (Cawnpore, 



India; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.). — Reichenbach, Natatores, Novit., 



viii, 1850, pi. 271, fig. 2261. 

 Hydrocecropis similis Boie, Isis, 1844, 179. 

 H[ydrocheUdon\ similis Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 660. 

 Hydrochelidon fluviatilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1842 (published Feb., 



18 i3), 140 (interior of New South Wales, coll. J. Gould); Birds Australia, 



vii, 1848, pi. 31 and text. — Sturt, Exped. Centr. Austral., ii, 1849, App., 



p. 58. — Reichenbach, Vog. NeuhoU., 1850, 347. — Pelzeln, Reis. 'Novara', 



Vog., 1835, 155.— Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 348 (Richmond, 



Fitzroy, and Mary rivers and Rockingham Bay, Queensland). 

 niydrochelidon] fluviatilis Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 660. 

 \ Hydrochelidon] fluviatilis Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 122, no. 11075. 

 Hydrochelidon leucopareia fluviatilis Mathews, Birds Australia, ii^ pt. 3, Sept. 20, 



1912, 321 (e. and s. Australia). 

 Hydrocecropis leucogenys Boie, Isis, 1844, 179. 



Hydrochelidon leucogenys Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 295; Vogelf., 1855, 350. 

 Hydrochelidon marginata Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xv, 1846, 376 (Hoogly, 



India). 

 Hydrochelidon tneridionalis Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 351. 

 Hydrochelidon nilotica Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 295; Vogelf., 1855, 351. 

 [Hydrochelidon] delalandii Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 773 {"leucopareia 



ex Cap. B. Spei, Mus. Par.").— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 122, no. 11076. 

 Hydrochelidon leucopareia delalandii Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 



1912, 321 (s. Africa). 

 Sterna innotata Beavan, Ibis, 1868, 404 (Thatong Creek, India). 

 [Sterna] innotata Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 119, no. 11043. 



Sterna mdanogastra (not S. melanogaster Temminck, 1827) Salvador:, Ucc. Bor- 

 neo, 1874, 377.— St. John, Ibis. 1889, 180 (Quetta).— Vorderman, Nat. 



Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind., xliv, 1884, 207 (Java); xlix, 1889, 420 (Sumatra). 

 Sterna macroura (not S. macrura Naumann, 1819) Sintenis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1877, 



68 (Dobrudscha, breeding). 

 Hydrochelidon nigra (not Sterna nigra Linnaeus) Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, 102 (Gilgit, 



India; see Scully, Ibis, 1881, 594). 

 Hydrochelidon leucopareia leggei Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 



1912, 321 (Ceylon). 

 Hydrochelidon leucopareia rogersi Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 



1912, 321, 323 (n. and n. w. Australia). 

 Hydrochelidon leucopareia swinhoei Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 



1912, 321 (China). 



HYDROCHELIDON NIGRA SURINAMENSIS (Gmelin). 



BLACK TERN. 



Similar to //. n. nigra, ^ but under parts much darker (black or 

 grayish black, instead of gray). 



Adults in summer (sexes alike). — ^Head, neck, and under parts, 

 except under tail-coverts and anal region, uniform sooty black or 



a See p. 527. 



