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S[terna] aranea Bonaparte, Obs. Nomencl. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [208]. 



[Sterna] aranea Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 461. — Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 119, 

 no. 11041. 



(?) Eydroprogne aranea Ka.up, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 91, 196. 



Gelochelidon aranea Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 775; Vogelf., 1855, 347; Nau- 

 mannia, 1855, 295. — Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 61. — Brewer, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba).— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 

 94 (Cuba; crit.); 1871, 294 (Cuba). 



Viralva aranea Gould, in Darwin Zool. Voy. 'Beagle,' iii, 1841, 145 (Bahia Blanca, 

 Argentina) . 



[Gelochelidon] aranea Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 772. — Gundlach, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 346 (Cuba). 



S[tema] anglica "aranea" Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 391 (Lake Michi- 

 gan, Illinois). 



Gelochelidon nilotica aranea Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 1912, 

 330 (North America). 



Sterna affinis (not of Riippell) Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc, xiii, 1820, 199; 

 Zool. Res. Java, 1824, 8. 



Viralva affinis Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 1, 1826, 175. 



Gelochelidon affinis Boie, Isis, 1844, 187. 



[Gelochelidon] affinis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 772. 



Gelochelidon nilotica affinis Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 1912, 



330 (Java, etc.). 



Sterna risoria Brehm, Vogelk., iii, 1822, 650, pi. 5; Lehrb. Eur. Vog., 1824, 682. 

 Sterna meridionalis Brehm, Lehrb. Eur. Vog., 1824, 988. — Heuglin, Ibis, 1859, 



35 (Massaua). 

 Gelochelidon balthica Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 772; Vogelf., 1855, 346; Nau- 



mannia, 1855, 295. 

 Gelochelidon agraria Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 773: Vogelf., 1855, 347; Nau- 



mannia, 1855, 295. 

 [Gelochelidon] meridionalis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 772. 

 Gelochelidon vieridionalis Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 774; Vogelf., 1855, 347; 



Naumannia, 1855, 295.— Loche, Expl. Sci. Alg^r., Ois., ii, 1867, 198. 

 Sterna nuttalli "Aud" [ubon] Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 



1834, 279, footnote (Dry Tortugas, Florida). 

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

 Hydrocecropis nuttalli Boie, Isis, 1844, 179. 

 Sterna macrotarsa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 26 (Tasmania; coll. 



J. Gould); Synop. Birds Australia, pt. ii, 1837, fig. 2. 

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

 [Sterna] macrotarsa Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 119, no. 11042. 

 Gelochelidon macrotarsa Boie, Isis, 1844, 187. — Reichenbach, Vog. Neuhol., 



1850, 347.— Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xlii, 1856, 772.— Gould, Handb. 



Birds Australia, ii, 1865, 403; Birds Australia, Suppl., 1869, pi. 81. — Ramsay, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 348 (Brisbane). — Mathews, Birds Australia, 



ii, 1913, pi. [104] facing p. 327. 

 Gelochelidon nilotica macrotarsa Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 



1912, 327, 331 (Australia). 

 Gelochelidon palustris Macgillivray, Man. Brit. Orn., pt. ii, 1842, 237. 

 Gelochelidon velox Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 347; Naumannia, 1855, 295. 

 Gelochelidon nilotKa addenda Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 1912, 



331 (China; breeding). 



Gelochelidon nilotica gronvoldi Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Sept. 20, 

 1912, 331 (South America; breeding). 



