6. STERNA. 07 



19. Sterna frontalis. 



? Striated Tern, Lath. Gen. Si/n. iii. p. 358, pi. 98 (1785 : New Zea- 

 land ; juv.). 



? Sterna striata, G>n. Si/st. Nut. i. p. 009 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 ii. p. 807 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Meih. pt. i. p. 95 (1790). 



Sterna striata, Gray, in Dieffenl). Trav. N. Zeal. ii. App. p. 200 (184.")). 



? Sterna velox, Gould {nee Cretschm.), P. Z. S. 184:^, p. 140 (Bass 

 Straits ; imm.). 



Sterna frontalis, Gray, Zool. Voy. JEreb. 4" Terror, p. 19, pi. 20* 

 (1844) ; id. Gen. Ii. iii. p. 659 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. iii. p. 118, 

 no. 11034 (1871) ; Finseh, J.f. O. 1870, p. 364; id. op. cit. 1872, 

 p. 253 ; id. op. cit. 1874, p. 205 (X. Zealand) ; Sutton, Cat. N. 

 Zeal. B. p. 42 (1871) : id. Ibis, 1872, p. 248 (Chatham Is.) ; Butler, 

 B. N. Zeal. p. 281 (1873) ; Sharpe, Voy. Ereb. ^- Terr., Birds, App. 

 p. 32 (1875); Saun lers, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 659 (revision); id. Journ. 

 Linn. iSoc. xiv. p. 402 (1878: distribution); Pamsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. W. 1878, p. 201 ; Peischek, Tr. N. Z. Inst. 1886, p. 103 (Little 

 Barrier I.) : Pamsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. X. S. IF. 1887, p. 1100; id. Tab. 

 List Austr. B. p. 23 (1888) : Puller, B. Xeic Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 68, 

 pi. XXX. ti?. 2 (1888) ; North, Nests ^ E(/(/s Austral. B. p. 403 (1889 : 

 Action I., Entrecasteaux Channel, S.E. Tasmania, breeding) ; 

 Tristr. Cat. Cull. B. p. 9 (1889) ; Heine ^- Peichewnv, Nomencl. Mus. 

 Hein. p. 354 (1890) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb. p. 239 

 (1891); JViylesw. Abh. zool. Mus. Dr'esd. 1890-91, no. 6, p. 75 

 (1892) ; H. 0. Forbes, Ibis, 1893, p. 530 (Chatham Is.). 



? Gvgis striata, Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 185. 



Sterna albifrons, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp., Birds, p. 279 (1848). 



Sterna melanorhyncha, Gould, B. Austr. vii. pi. 26 (1848 : Tas- 

 mania) ; Peichenb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 346 (1850) ; Gould, Handb. 

 B. Austr. ii. p. 398 (1865 : partim) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 118, 

 no. 11033 (1871). 



Sterna atripes, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7473. 



Sterna longipennis (partim), Finsch ^- Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. 

 p. 220 (1867). 



Sterna longipennis, i^(wsc7i {nee Nordm.), J. f. O. 1867, p. 339; id. 

 (correction) op. cit. 1870, p. 365.t 



Adult in hreedinci-plumarjc. Lores and lower forehead to the base 

 of the bill white ; upper forehead, crown, and nape black, the 

 feathers filamentous and not acuminate ; upper surface very pale 

 grey, the shafts of the flight- and tail-feathers white ; outer web of 

 first primary black nearly to the tip, inner web pale grej' next the 

 shaft and white on the inner margin, the succeeding primaries grey 

 on their outer webs, otherwise like the first, all of them edged with 

 white to the tips of the inner webs as in >S'. dougalU ; underparts 

 pure white, sometimes suffused with a pink tinge, which is 

 evanescent : bill black ; tarsi and toes reddish brown. Total length 

 16 to 17 inches, according to the development of the tail-streamers ; 

 culmen 2*2, wing 11-25, tail 7, depth of fork 4, tarsus 0*85, middle 



t " PlIAETUSA ASTROLABiE," Bp. MS, 



There is a young .S. frontalis nained as above in the Paris Museum, said to 



come from Tongatabu (Quoy & Gaimard's Voy.). Another bird bearing the 

 same name and from the same locality is S. hergii. 



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