64 lARID-E. 



Sterna arp'entata, Brehm, Beitr. Yogelk. iii. p. 692 (1822) ; id. Lehrb, 



Eur. Voff. p. 689 (1824) ; id. Vog. Deutschl. p. 782 (1831) ; 



id. Nanm. 1855, p. 295 ; id. Vogelf. p. 348 (1855) : Homeyer, Ornis, 



1885, p. 81 ; Lutke, t. c. p. 145, and op. cit. 1886, p. 99, O. Winge, 



p. 592 (Denmark, breeds) ; Grondal, Ornis, 1885, p. 371 (Ice- 

 laud). 

 Sterna bracliytarsa, Graba, Beise n. Fciro, p. 219 (1830); Brehm, 



Vog. Deutschl. p. 787 (1831). 

 Sterna argentacea, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 783 (1831) ; id. Naum. 



1855, p. 29-5 — misprinted S. argentatea. 

 Sterna oceani, Brehm, Viig. Deutschl. p. 786 (1831). 

 Sterna macroura, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 784 (1831) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. iii. p. 659 (184r.) ; Kjatrh. Damn. Fugle, p. 330, Taf. 40 b (1852), 



and Suppl. Taf. 20. figs. 4, 5 (1854) ; Kevgl. Sgst. Uebers. p. 70 



(1856 : Egypt, winter) ; Evans ^- Sturge, Ibis, 1859, p. 167 (W. 



Spitsbergen) ; Reinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 19 (Greenland) ; Gray, Cat. 



Brit. B. p. 240 (1863) ; Malmgr. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh. 



1863, p. 101, and 1804, p. 385 (Spitsbergen) ; Loche, Expl. Sci. 



Alger., Ois. ii. p. 202 (1867) ; Heugl. in Peterm. Mittheil. 1869, 



p. 408 ; Droste, Vogelw. Borkums, p. 326 (1869) ; Coues, Key N.- 



Amer. B. p. 321 (1872) ; Sunder. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 



Stockh. 1874, p. 21 (Spitsbergen) ; Finsch, Beise West. Sibir. p. 279 



(1879). 

 Sterna bracbvpus, Sw. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 152 (1837) ; Gi-ay, Gen. B. 



iii. p. 059 (1846) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 255 (1857); Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 371 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 262 (S. Afi-ica) ; 



Sperlinr/, Ibis, 1868, p. 284 (Europa I., Mozambique Channel) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 118, no. 11022 (1871). 

 Sterna senegalensis. Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 250 (1837) ; Schleg. 



Mus. P.-Bas, Sternse, p. 16 (1863) (partim)*; Gray, Gen. B. iii. 



p. 659 (1846). 

 The Arctic Tern, Yarr. Brit. B. iii. p. .399 (1843). 

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

 Hydrocecropis brachrpus, ^oiV, Isis, 1844, p. 179. 

 Sterna coccineirostris, Beichenb. Natat., Novitates, viii. tab. cclxxi. 



fig. 2262 (1850 : Mexico) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 118, no. 11029 



(1871). 

 Sterna pikei, Laivr. Ann. Lye. A. I. vi. p. 3 (1853: Monterey, 



Gala.) ; Baird, Cass. Sr Later. B. N. Amer. p. 863, pi. 95 (1858) ; 



Coues, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1862, p. 550 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 118, 



no. 11031 (1871). 

 Sterna longipennis, Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 321 (1872). 

 Sterna portlaudica, Ridgw. Amer. Kat. viii. p. 433 (1874) ; Coues, 



B. A'.- West, p. 691 (1874) ; Breivster, Ann. Lye. N. Y. xi. p. 201 



(1875 : referred to S. macrui-a). 

 ? Sterna atrofasciata, Philippi ^- Landb. Wiegm. Archiv, 1863, 



Bd. i. p. 204 (Colchagua, Chile : juv.) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. 



p. 118, no. 11035 (1871). 

 ? Pelodes albistriata, Heine ^- Beichenotc, Nomencl. Mus. Heitt. 



p. 356 (1890 : " St. John's Id., West Indies "). 



Adult male in hreeding-'plumage. Forehead, upper lores, crown, 

 and nape black ; a white streak from the base of the bill running 



* One of the specimens so named in the Leydeu Museum is S. macrura, the 

 other being S. fltiviatUis. 



