BIRDS OF NORTH AND MroDLg AMERICA. 513 



Western portion of middle Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, breed- 

 ing from Bahama Islands to coast of Venezuela, and on cays of British 

 Honduras (Saddle Cay; Lighthouse Reef; Southern Water Cay; 

 coast near Belize); ** accidental in Florida (Cape Canaveral), Georgia 

 (coast, Sept., 1902), and South Carolina (Frogmore, Aug. 25, 1885). 



Haliplana panayensis (not Sterna panayensis Gmelin) Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 199 

 (coast of Belize, British Honduras; crit.). 



Onychoprion panayensis Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.< 1871, 572, 

 part (monogr.). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 36 (Costa Rica). 



[Onychoprion} panayensis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 147, part. 



Haliplana panaya Salvin, Ibis, 1864, 381 (Saddle Cay, British Honduras). — 

 CouES, Ibis, 1864, 391 (Lighthouse Reef, British Honduras; crit.). 



Haliplana discolor Coues, Ibis, 1864, 392 (a new name for Haliplana panaya auct. 

 not of Gmelin and Latham). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y.,viii, 1864, 101, 

 105 (Sombrero, Greater Antilles; habits; crit.). — Elliot, New and Unfig.N. 

 Am. Birds, pt. 13, 1869 (vol. ii), pi. 57 and text. 



[Sterna] anosthseta (not S. anaethetus Scopoli) Coues, Key, 1872, 323, part 

 (Florida).— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 33. 



Sterna anosthxta Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 574. — Cory, Birds Bahama Is. 

 1880, 215, pi. [8] (Long Island, Bahamas, breeding); Auk, iv, 1887, 96 (Mar- 

 tinique). — Wells, List Birds Grenada, 1886, 11. 



Sterna anosthxtus Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 77 (Bahamas, breeding; Cuba; Sombrero; 

 descr.; synonymy); Birds Westlnd., 1889, 278. 



Sterna {Haliplana) anxstheta Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 701, part (monogr.). 



Sterna anxstheta Saunders, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1876, 664, part (monogr.); 

 1877, 43 (coast Great Britain); Zoologist, 1877, 213 (mouth of Thames, Eng- 

 land?); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxv, 1896, 101, part (Cape Canaveral, Florida; 

 Clarence Harbor, Bahamas; Jamaica; Redonda; Guadeloupe; St. Vincent; 

 Grenada; Southern Water and Saddle cays, British Honduras), 457 (St. Vin- 

 cent). — Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 68 (Dominica, breeding); 

 i, 1879, 488 (Dominica).— Dalgleish, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 220 

 (1 British record). — Gundlach, Joum. fiir Orn., 1881, 400 (Cuba). — Har- 

 tert. Ibis, 1893, 310 (Aruba; habits; crit.).— Bonhote, Ibis, 1903, 314 

 (Andros Island, Bahamas, breeding; habits). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 408 part (Lighthouse Reef, Saddle Cay, Southern 

 Water Cay, etc., British Honduras; Costa Rica; West Indies). 



« The only actual breeding records I have found, however, are the following: Long 

 Island and Andros, Bahamas; Jamaica; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Grenada; Saddle Cay, 

 British Honduras. Other definite localities recorded are the following: 



Bahamas: Clarence Harbor; Booby Rock, June 8; Long Rock, off Abaco; Eleu- 

 thara; Miraporvo. 



Greater Antilles: Jamaica; Porto Rico (Desechio, June 14, July 6; AguadUla, 

 .Tune 24). 



Lesser Antilles: Sombrero; St. Bartholomew; Redondo; Guadaloupe (breeding); 

 Martinique; St. Vincent; Grenada (breeding). 



Dutch West Indies: Aruba. 



Tohago. 



Bermudas. 



Costa Rica: (This, however, may be the Pacific form, S. a. nelsoni, since it is not 

 stated whether specimens taken or observed in Costa Rica were on the Atlantic or 

 Pacific side. 



40017— 19— Bull. 50, pt 8 34 



