2& LAEID^. 



Burm. p. 163 (1875) ; Tncznn. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1875, p. 261 



(Tarei-nor); Hume, Sir. Feath. iv. p. 294 (1876: Andamans) ; 



Gundl. Orn. Cuba, p. 309 (1876); Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



iv. p. 51 (1876 : Tehuantepec) ; Hume Si Davison, Str. F, vi. 



p. 491 (1878 : Tenasserim) ; Davids. ^ Wend. Str. F. vii. p. 93 



(1879 : Deccan) ; Cripps, t. c. p. 313 (E. Bengal) ; Biddulph, 



Ibis, 1881, p. 102(Gilgit); Gif/lioli, Hiis, 1881, p. 218 (Italy); 



Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 430 (1882) ; Zeledon, Cat. Av. Casta 



Rica, p. 36 (1882) ; Radde, Orn. Cauc. p. 485 ( 1884) ; Nikolshy, Trud. 



St. Petersb. xvii. p. 402 (1886) ; Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 414 (1886) ; 



Olphe-Gall. Contr. Faun. Orn. Eur. Occid. liv. x. p. 15 (1886) ; 



Radde 8^ Walter, Ornis, 1889, p. 126 (Transcaspia) ; Vorderm. Nat. 



Tijdschr. Nederl. hid. xlix. p. 419 (1889 : Sumatra) ; Gigl. i. Resoc. 



Av. Ital. p. 629 (1889) ; id. ii. Resoc. p. 652 (1891). 

 Geloclielidon anglicus, Grat/, List Gen. -p. 100 (1841) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 290 (1849) ; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 836 (1864) ; 



Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 421 (Kattiawar). 

 Viralva aranea, Darioin, Zool. ' Beagle,^ iii. p. 143 (1841 : Bahia 



Blanca). 

 Geloclielidon palustris, Macgill. Man. Br. Orn. pt. ii. p. 237 (1842). 

 The Gull-billed Tern, Yarr. Br. B. iii. p. 407 (1843). __ 

 Gelichelidon anglica. Gray, List B. in Brit. Mus. iii. (Anseres), 



p. 176 (1844). 

 Hydrocecropis nuttalli, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 179. 

 ? Hydrochelidon nilotica (Gin.), Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 184. 

 Geloclielidon affinis, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 187 ; Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 772 



(1856). 

 Geloclielidon macrotarsa, Boie, Isis, 1 844, p. 187 ; Reicfienb. Vog. 



Neukoll. p. 347 (1850) ; Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 772 (1856) ; Gould, 



Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 403 (1865) ; id. B. Austr. Suppl. pi. 81 



(1869); Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 119 (1871); Ramsay, P. Z. S. 



1877, p. 348 (Brisbane). 

 Gelochelidon velox, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 347 (1855) ; id. Naum. 1855, 



p. 295. 

 Sterna nilotica, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 119 (1871) ; Hume, Str. F. 



i. p. 281 (1873 : Siud) ; R. M. Adam, t. c. p. 403 (Sambhur L., 



■winter) ; Hume, Nests S,- Eggs Ind. B. p. 648 (1875) ; E. A. Butler, 



Str.F.iv. p. 31 (N. Guzerat); J. Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 351 



(Irrawaddy) ; Reicfienow, Syst. Verz. Vog. Dcutschl. p. 61 (1889) ; 



Frivaldsky, Av. Hung. p. 179 (1891) ; Madanisz, Ausst. Ung. 

 Vogelf. p. 120 (1891) ; Hartert, Katal. Voqelsamml. Senchenb. 



p. 240 (1891) ; Reichenow, Vog. Deutsch. 0\-Afr. p. 21 (1894 : 



Victoria Nyanza). 

 Sterna (Gelochelidon) anglica, Cones, B. N.- West, p. 664. (1874); 



id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 757 (1884). 

 Gelochelidon nilotica, Stejneqer, Auk, 1884, pp. 364-366 (e.r 



Hasselq.) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 92 (1887) ; Salmd. 

 Ucc. Ital. p. 279 (1887) ; Ridgiv. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 38 (1887) ; 



Cory, B. West Indies, p. 277 (1889) ; Heine £,- Reichen. Nomencl. 



Mus. Hein. p. 354 (1890) ; Rhoads, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1892, p. 101 



(Corpus Christi, Texas, breeding) ; Cory, Cat. West Ind. B. p. 92 



(1892). 



Adult male in hreeding-jylmnar/e. Forehead, crown, upper half of 

 lores, nape, and nuchal crest jet-black ; mantle, upper tail-coverts, 

 and tail pearl-grey, the outer feathers of the latter whitish ; 

 primaries grey when new and frosted, but darker, inclining to iron- 

 grey towards the tips and especially on the inner webs, when the 



