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out its range;" accidental in Bermudas (1 specimen, Sept. 12, 1854) 

 and off British Islands (2 records). 



[Sterna] stolida Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 137 (West Indies; based on 

 The Noddy Oatesby, Nat. Hist, Carolina, i, 1731, 88, fig. 88; La Mouette brune 

 Brisson, Orn., vi, 1760, 199, pi. 18, fig. 2); ed. 12, i, 17G6, 227; Amoen. Acad., 

 iv, 1759, 240.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i. pt. ii, 1789, 604.— Latham, Index Orn., 

 ii, 1790, 805. 



Sterna stolida Boddaert, Tabl. PL EnL, 1783, 58 (PL Enl., pi. 997).— Temminck, 

 Cat. Syst., 1807, 184.— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat.,-xxxii, 1819, 178, 

 part, pi. G3, fig. 3. — Carmichael, Trans. Linn. Soc, xii, 1819, 497 (Tristan 

 da Cunha, breeding). — Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, 1828, pi. 9. — Bona- 

 parte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1828, 356.— Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 620, 

 part. — Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1833, 874. — Nuttall, Man. 

 Orn. L". S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 285. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., iii, 

 1835, 516, pi. 275; v, 1839, 642; Synopsis, 1839, 322; Birds Am., 8vo. ed., 

 vii, 1844, 123, pi. 440.— Thompson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835, 84 (off 

 Ireland); Mag. Zool. Bot., i, 1837, 459 (off Ireland). — Jenyns, Man. Brit. 

 Vertebr., 1835, 270.— Gould, Birds Euroi>e, v, 1837, pi. 421 and text.— 

 D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 213.^ — Schinz; Europ. 

 Faun., 1840, 377.— Yarrell, Brit. Birds, iii, 1843, 417; 2d ed., 1845, 531.— 

 Degland, Orn. Eur., ii, 1849, 335. — Thompson, Birds Ireland, iii, 1851, 

 308. — Burmeister. Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 453 (Fernando Noronha). — 

 Hewitson, Eggs Brit. Birds, ii, 1856, 486, pi. 134, fig. 3. — Meyer, Brit. 

 Birds, vii, 1857, 113, pi. 298.— Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, vi, Sternae, 1864, 

 36, part. — Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc, xi, 1867, 97 (Santo Domingo). — Harting, 

 Handb. Brit. Birds, 1872, 170.— Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 294, 

 pi. 49 (eggs). 



St[erna] stolida Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 222 (Bermudas). 



Megnlopterus stolidus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 61. — Gould, in 

 Darwin's Zool. Voy. 'Beagle.' iii, 1841, 145, part (St. Paul Rocks, Atlantic 

 Ocean). — Macgillivray, Man. Brit. Orn., pt. ii, 1842, 236; Brit. Birds, v, 

 1852, 672.— Albrecht, Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 207 (Jamaica). 



M[egalopterus] stolidus Keyserling and Blasius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. xcviii, 

 248. 



Anous stolidus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 100; List Birds Brit. Mus., Anseres, 

 1844, 180; Cat. Brit. Birds, 1863, 244.— Reichenbach, Syst. Nat., 1850, pi. 

 4. — Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1857, 234 (Cuba). — Lawrence, in Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 865; Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1865, 106 (Sombrero; 

 breeding habits); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 277 (Grenada, breeding), 

 488 (Dominica).— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 696.— Bryant, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859. 133 (Bahamas, breeding). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1861, 58 (Bahamas). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 94 (Cuba;crit.); 

 1874, 314 (Porto Rico); 1875, 395 (Cuba; habits); 1878, 163, 191 (Porto 

 Rico); Orn. Cubana, 1876, 311.— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 



« Breeding localities for which definite records are at hand are the following: 



Bahamas; Washerwoman Cay, Andros Island; Miraporvos Islands. 



Greater Antilles: Jamaica; Porto Rico, including I^Iona and Desecheo islands. 



Lesser Antilles: Sombrero; St. Vincent; Guadeloupe; Grenada. 



Off Venezuela: Trinidad; Los Hermanos Island. 



Off Brazil: St. Paul Rocks; South Trinidad. 



Off British Honduras: Curlew Cay; Southwest-of-all Cay. 



Off southern Africa: Ascension Island; Tristan da Cunha; Inaccessible Island. 



