120 



s", t". cJ ad. sk. 



u" . (J ad. sk. 

 v"-x". S ad. sk. 

 y", z", a^. S ad. sk. 

 b^. S ad. ; c'. Juv. 



sk. 

 d^. Imm. sk. 

 e*. c? ad. sk. 



/•\ c? ad. sk. 



ff'-r^. c? ad. ; s'-m^. 



2 ad. ; v^-y^. Imm. 



sk. 

 £\ 6 ad. sk. 



«^ 6^._ c? 2 ad. ; c^ 



5 juv. sk. 

 d*. S imm. sk. 



e'. $ imm. sk. 



/ '. Juv. sk. 

 g\ Skeleton. 

 A'. Sternum. 



Futteligurh, April, May Seetohm Coll. 



{A. Anderson). 



Futtehgurh, May {A. A.). H. Saunders Coll. 



Etawah, March. Hume Coll. 



Cawnpore, April (^.O.B'.). Hume Coll. 



Allahabad, March & Aug. Hume Coll. 



Oudh, Dee. 



Mahanadi River, April ( V. 



Ball). 

 Faridpur, June {J. R. 



Cnpps). 

 Goalundo, Lower Bramah- 



putra River, April [J. 



C. Parker). 

 Godavery River, May ( JV. 



T. Blanford). 

 Sittang River, June. 



Sittang River, June {E. 



W. 0.). 

 Salangore coast, Aug. ( W. 



Davison). 

 Java. 

 England. 

 England. 



28. Sterna saundersi. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



E. W. Dates Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



India Mus. [P.]. 

 Zoological Society. 

 John Ray, Esq, [P.]. 



Sterna minuta (nee L.), Hevglin, Ibis, 1859, p. 351 (Red Sea) : 

 Schlegel, Mus. P.-Bns, Sterna, p. 22 (186.3: partim, Natal*);' 

 Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 304 (1870: Zoulla, June) ; Btitler, Str. F. 

 V. p. 324 (1877); Oustal. Bull. Soc. Philomath. 1878, p. 194 

 (Seychelles); Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 23 (Aden and Somali-land) ; 

 Sharpe, op.cit. 1891, p. 115 (Fao, Persian GuK, breeding) ; Barnes, 

 op. cit. 189.3, p. 177 (Aden). 



Sterna sp. ?, Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 304, no. 219 (1870 : Zoulla). 



Sternula minuta, Heur/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 1441 (1873); Hmil Faun. 

 Madayasc. p. 390 (1877) ; Hume, Str. F. iv. p. 469 (1876 : Lacca- 

 dives). 



Sterna sumatrana {nee Pajfi.), Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 663 (re- 

 vision Sterninajt) ; Everett, B. Borneo, p. 211, no. 563 (1889). 



Sterna saundersi, JEIume, Str. F. v. pp. .324-6 (1877 : Karachi, type 

 in B. M.) ; id. op. cit. viii. p. 116 (List I. B.) ; Vidal, op. cit. ix. 

 p. 95 (Malabar coast) ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 1023 (1880) ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 493 (Fao, breeding). 



Sterna balsenarum (nee SticM.), E. Netvfon, Tr. Norfolk Soc. iv. 

 p. 553 (1888 : Mascarene Is.) J ; Reichenow, Vog. Deutsch-O.-Afr. 

 p. 21 (1894: Mtoni and Kingani). 



? Sternula novella, Hartl. Abh. Ver. Brem. xii. p. 45 (1891 : Mtoni, 

 E. Africa). 



Adult in hreecling-plumage. Similar to the preceding species, from 



* Procui"ed by Jules Verreaux, who gave it the MS. name of Sterna naialensis 

 (1858). 



t Name adopted provisionally, in default of a series of specimens. 

 I Specimen at Cambridge examined. 



