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Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 366, pi. 250; Synopsis, 1839, 319; Birds, Am., 8vo. ed., 

 vii, 1844, 107, pi. 436.— Gould, Birds Europe, v, 1837, pi. 419 and text.— 

 ScHiNZ, Vog. Eur., 1840, 373.— Macgillivray, Man. Brit. Orn., pt. ii, 1842, 

 232; Brit. Birds, v, 1852, 643.— Selys-Longchamps. Faun. Belg., 1842, 150.— 

 Yarrell, Brit. Bii-ds, iii, 1843, 399; 2d ed., iii, 1845, 507.— Hewitson, Eggs 

 Brit. Birds, ii, 1846, 428, pi. 120, fig. 2.— Reichenbach, Natatores, 1848, pi. 

 20, figs. 274-280.— Wolley, in Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 113 (Faroes).— 

 Meyer, Brit. Birds, vii, 1857, 90, pi. 293.— Sundevall, Svensk Fogl., 1863, pi. 

 48, figs. 2, 3.— Gray (R.) Birds West Scotl., 1871, 468.— Turnbull, Bii-ds 

 E. Penn. and N. J.. 1869, 139 (fall and winter).— Palmen, Finlands Foglar, 

 1873, 573; Cat. Swed. Lend. Fish. Exhib., 1883, 202.— Adams, Ibis, 1878, 440 

 (St. Michaels, Alaska; habits).— Feilden, Zoologist, 1879, 7 (Prince Albert 

 Land).— Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 284. 



S[terna] arctica Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 258. ^Putnam, Proc. Essex 

 Inst., i, 1856, 221 (Beverly Harbor, Mass.) 



Sterna argentata Brehm, Beitr. Vogelk., iii, 1822, 692; Lehrb, Eur. Vog., 1824, 

 689; Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 782; Naumannia, 1855, 295; Vogelf., 1855, 348.— 

 Homeyer. Ornis, 1885, 81.— Lijtken, Ornis, 1885, 141; 1886, 99.— Winge (O.), 

 Ornis, 1885, 592- (Denmark, breeding) . —Grondal, Ornis, 1885, 371 (Iceland). 



Sterna brachytarsa Graba, Reise n. Faro, 1830, 219. — Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 

 1831, 787. 



Sterna argentacea Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 786. 



Sterna oceani Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 786. 



Sterna brachypus Swainson, Birds West Africa, ii, 1837, 252.— Hartlaub, Orn. 

 W.-Afrika, 1857, 255.— Layard, Birds South Africa, 1867, 371.— Gurney, 

 Ibis, 1868, 262 (s. Africa).— Sperling, Ibis, 1868, 284 (Europa Island, Mozam- 

 bique Channel). 



S[terna] brachypits Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 659. 



[Sterna] brachypus Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 118, no. 11022. 



Hydrocecropis brachypus Boie, Isis, 1844, 179. 



Sterna senegalensis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas., vi, Sternae, 1863, 16, part. 



Sterna cocdneirostris Reichenbach, Natatores, Novit., 1850, p. viii, pi. 271, fig. 

 2262 ("Mexico"). 



[Sterna] cocdneirostris Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 118, no. 11029. 



Sterna pikei Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vi, 1853, 3 (vicinity of 

 Monterey, California); in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 863; ed. 

 1860 (Birds N. Am.), pi. 95.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 693.— 

 CouES, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 550 (monogr.). 



[Sterna] pikei Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 118, no. 11031. 



[Sterna] pykii Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 772. 



[Sterna] longipennis (not of Nordmann, 1835) Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 321 

 (erroneous identification of S. pikei Lawrence). 



SternM longipennis Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 568.— Stejneger, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat Mus., vi, 1883, 70. 



Sterna portlandica Ridgway, Am. Nat., viii, no. 7, July, 1874, 433, in text (Portland 

 Harbor, Maine; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.) ix, 1875, 54, 55 (crit.).— Coues, Birds 

 Northwest, 1874, 691 (monogr.).— Brewster, Ann. Lye. N. Y., xi, 1876, 201 

 (crit.). 



(?) Steriia atrofasdala Phllippi and Landbeck, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., 

 1863, Bd. i, 204 (Colchagua, Chile ;=young?). 



(?) [Sterna] atrofasdala Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, no. 11035. 



(?) [Pelodes] albislriata (not Bydrochelidon albistriata Gray, 1844a) Heine and 

 Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 356 ("St. Johns Id., West Indies"). 



« Or else the locality probably wrong. 



