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179 (Vera Cruz).— Taczanowski, Orn. du P^rou, iii, 1886, 439; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1877, 749 (Santa Lucia, Peru). — Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 ix, 1887, 632 (Grenada, breeding).— Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 379 (Cozumel 

 Island). — ScLATER and Hudson, Argentine Orn., ii, 1889, 195. — Allen, 

 Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 272 (Rio Parahyba, Brazil).— Scott, Auk, 

 ■vii, 1890, 306 (Dry Tortugas, breeding; remarks as to molt). — White, Auk, 

 X, 1893, 222 (Mackinac Island, Michigan).— Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 309) Aruba, 

 Curasao and Bonaire; crit.), 326 (Curasao), 337 (Bonaire); Novit. Zool., ix, 

 1902, 308 (Aruba, Curasao, and Bonaire); x, 1903, 297 (RiodeOro, w. Africa).— 

 Stone, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 1894, 45 (Chester Co., Pennsylvania, 

 and coast New Jersey). — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 120 (Jamaica). — Koenigswald, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1896, 396 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil). — Holmberg, Segundo 

 censo Argentina, 1898, 558. — Nelson, North Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 24 

 (Tres Marias Islands, May; breeding?). — Ihering, Revista Mus. Paulista, iii, 

 1899, 444 (Iguape, Sao Paula).— Beyer, Proc. La. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 

 86 (coast Louisiana, breeding). — Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 

 no. 1, 1902, 24 (La Paz, Lower California, Jan.; San Jose del Cabo, Sept., 

 Oct.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 406 (Mazat- 

 lan, Sinaloa; Manzanillo, Colima; Guaymas, Sonora; Isabella Island; Tree 

 Marias Islands; San Mateo and Gulf of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; Jalapa and 

 Rio Rancho Nuevo, Vera Cruz; Rio Lagarto, Merida, and Cozumel Island, 

 Yucatan; Belize, Glovers Reef, etc., Brit. Honduras; Chiapam, Guate- 

 mala; Honduras; Costa Rica; coast of South America to Santa Catarina, 

 8. Brazil, and Peru; West Indies; west coast Africa). — (?) Bailey (H. H.), 

 Auk, xxiii, 1906, 377 (Isabella Island, W. Mexico, breeding)." — Ber- 

 LEPSCH, Novit. Zool., XV, 1908, 309 (Cayenne). — Verrill (A. E. and 

 A. H.), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1909, 355 (Santo Domingo). — Dabbene, 

 Orn. Argentina, 1910, 211 (estuary of Rio de la Plata). — Philipp, Auk, xxvii, 

 1910, 312 (coast North Carolina, breeding). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 

 vi, 1910, 414 (near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Feb.). — Grant (C. H. B.)., 

 Ibis, 1911, 472 (Tuyu, Argentina, March 1). — Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif., 

 no. 11, 1915, 24 (California; more or less common n. to Tomales Bay; formerly 

 breeding on San Miguel Island). — Wetmore, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. Agric, 

 1916, 48 (Porto Rico, Vieques, and Culebra, common visitant). 



[Sterna] maxima Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 147. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 33.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 135.— 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 54 (Mazatlan; 

 Jamaica, crit.). 



Thalasseus maximus Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 1876, 51 (San Mateo, 

 Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Aug., Feb.). — Oberholser, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 199. 



[Pha'ethnsa] maxima Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 355. 



S[tema] maxima Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 117. 



S[terna] (J") [halassexis] maxima Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 759. 



[Sterna] cayana Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 804 (Cayenne). 



Sterna cayana Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 184. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xxxii, 1819, 168. — Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, 1825, 155. — 

 Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, pt. i, 1825, 31 (Florida; crit.); 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1828, 353.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water 

 Birds, 1834, 268.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 505, pi. 273; vi, 1839, 639; 

 Synopsis, 1839, 316; Birds Am., 8vo. ed., vii, 1844, 46, pi. 429.— De Kay, 

 N. Y. Zool., ii, 1844, 299, pi. 127, fig. 277.— Giraud, Birds Long Island, 

 1844, 355. — Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 96 (Pampator, Margarita Island, Venezuela). 



a May be T. elegans and not T. maximum. 



