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Thalasseus cantiacus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 61, part. — Cabanis, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1857, 234 (Cuba).— Albrecht, Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 207 

 (Jamaica). — Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 51 (San Mateo, 

 Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Aug., Feb.). 



[Sterna] cantiaca Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 147. — Pelzeln, 

 Orn. Bras., 1870, 461.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 320.— Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885, and revised ed., 1886, 33.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 

 135, part. 



Sterna (Thalasseus) cantiaca Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 673, part (monogr.). 



S[tem.a] (T) [halasseus] cantiaca Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 761. 



Sterna aciiflavida Cabot, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1847, 257 (Tancah, Yucatan). — 

 Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 860.— Baird, Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 685; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 27 

 (Brazos, Texas). — Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 134 (Bahamas). 



[Sterna] acuflavida Albrecht, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 58 (Bahamas). — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1869, 210 (Celestin, Yucatan).— Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 

 119, no. 11048. 



Sterna cantiaca acuflavida Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 208; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 683; Cat. Aquat. and Fish-eating Birds, 1883, 

 33.— Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 225 (Galveston Bay, etc., 

 Texas, breeding). 



Sterna sandvicensis acuflavida Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am. , 

 ii, 1884, 288. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d 

 ed., 1895, no. 67; 3d ed., 1910, p. 43.— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 77 (West Indian 

 localities and references; descr.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 278; Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 82 (Eleuthera, Acklin Island and Great Inagua, Bahamas; Cuba; 

 Jamaica; Porto Rico; Antigua). — McIlwraith, Birds Ontario, 18^94, 52 

 (Lucknow, Ontario, 3 specs., spring 1882). — Stone, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 

 1894, 451 (Grassy Bay, New Jersey). — Beyer, Proc. Louis. Soc. Nat. for 

 1897-99 (1900), 86 (coast Louisiana, resident).— Field, Auk, xxi, 1904, 120 

 (Jamaica). — Pearson, Auk, xxv, 1908, 312 (Royal Shoal Island, North Caro- 

 lina, breeding). — Philipp, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 313 (Pimlico Sound, North 

 Carolina, breeding).— Wetmore, Bull. 326, U. S. Dept. Agric, 1916, 48 

 (Porto Rico, rare visitant). 



[Thalasseus] acuflavidus Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 346 (Cuba); 1874, 314 

 (Porto Rico).— Stahl, Ornis, vol. 3, 1887, 453 (Porto Rico). 



Thalasseus acuflavidus Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba). — 

 Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1875, 390 (Cuba; habits); 1878, 163 (Porto Rico); 

 Report. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 392; Orn. Cubana, 1876, 309; Anal. Soc. 

 Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 411 (Porto Rico).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1862, 540 (monogr.); 1871, 42 (Fort Macon, North Carolina); Ibis, 

 1864, 389 (Chiapam, Guatemala; crit.); Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 308 (New 

 England); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1868, 126 (South Carolina).— Salvin, Ibis, 

 1864, 381 (Saddle Cay, Brit. Honduras); 1866, 198 (Honduras). 



Th[alasseus] acuflavidus Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 542.— Gundlach, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1878, 191 (Porto Rico). 



Thalasseus acuflavida Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 94 (Cuba). 



Thalasseus sandvicensis acuflavidus Oberholskr, Auk, xxxiv, April, 1917, 199. 



[Actochelidon] acuflavida Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Ilein. Orn., 1890, 



355 



Genus GELOCHELIDON Brehm. 



Gelochelidon Brehm, Naturg. Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 771. (Type, by monotypy 



Lachseeschwalbe Jirehm=Sterna nilotica Linnaeus.) 

 Gelichclidon (emendation) Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. iii, 1844, 176. 



