]36 LAKIDJE. 



Norfolk Island. E. Saunders [C.J. 



sk. Raoul or Sunday I., Kermadec Voy.H.M.S.' Herald.' 

 Is., July 1854 (J. Mac- 

 gillivray) 

 Eua, Friendly Is. {Hiibner, H. Saunders Coll. 

 Mus. Godeffroy). 



i, k. S ? ad. .sk. San Ambrosio Id., July {Dr. Yoy. H.M.S. ' Alert.' 

 Copping^-) . 



i). ANGUS. „ 



Type. 

 Anous, Steph. in Shaivs Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 1, p. 139 



(1826 : ex Leach MSS.) A. stolidus. 



Megalopterus, Boie, Zsis, 1821), p. 980 ; cf. id. op. 



cit. 1844, pp. 187-188 A. .stolidus. 



Stolida, Lesson, Tmite d'Oni. p. 620 (1831) A. stolidus. 



Gavia, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 373 (1837) A. stolidus. 



Aganaphron, Gloyer, Hand- u. Hilfsb. p. 463 (1842). " The Noddies." 



Bange. Tropical and juxta-tropical seas. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Larger ; bill stouter, crown and forehead 



lavender-gi-ey stolidus, p. 136. 



b. Smaller ; bill more slender, head and entire 



upper parts sooty black galapayensis.^ p. 143. 



1. Anous stolidus. 



The Noddy, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i. p. 88, cum fig. 88 

 (1731). • 



La Mouette brune, Brtss. Orn. vi. p. 199, pi. xviii. fig. 2 (1760). 



Sterna stolida, Limi. Amcen. Acad. iv. p. 240 (1759) : id. Syst. Nat. 

 i. p. 227 (1766); Forster, /wrf. Zoo/, p. 42 (1781) ; Gni. Syst. Nat. 

 i. p. 604 (1788): Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 91 (1790); Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. ii. p. 805 (1790) ; Licht. Cat. Eemm nat. rar. p. 27 (1793) ; 

 Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxii. p. 178 (1819) ; Carmichael, 

 Tr. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 497 (1819 : Tristan da Cuuha, breeding) ; 

 Werner, Atlas, Balmipedes, pi. 9 (1828) ; Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 

 p. 356 (1828) ; Audub. B. Amer. pi. 275 (circa 1826) ; Lesson, 

 Traite, p. 620 (1831) ; Neuwied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iv. p. 874 

 (1833) ; Eittl. Kupfert. iii. p. 27, tab. 36. fig. 2 (1833) ; Meyen, 

 Beitr. p. 239 (1834;) ; Nutt. Man. Orn. ii. p. 285 (1834) ; Tkomps. 

 P. Z. S. 1835, p. 84 (off Ireland); Jenyns, Man. Brit. Verteb. 

 p. 270 (1835) ; And'ub. Orn. Biogr. iii. p. 516 (1835), v. p. 642 

 (1839) ; Gould, B. Eur. v. pi. 421 (1837) ; Audub. Synop. p. 322 

 (1839); D'Orbign. in Sagras Hist. Nat. Cuba, p. 213 (1839); 

 F. D. Bennett, Whaling Vog. i. p. 161 (Society Is.) ; Temm. Man. 

 d'Orn. 2me (Sd. 4m<' pte, p. 461 (1840) ; Schinz,' Europ. Faun. p. 377 

 (1840) : Audub. B. N. Amer. 8vo ed. vii. p. 123, pi. 440 (1844) ; 

 Schl. Bev. Crit. p. exxxi (1844) ; Yarrell, Brit. B. p. 531 (1845) ; 

 Begl. Orn. Eur. ii. p. 335 (1849) ; Thomps. B. Irel. iii. p. 308 

 (1851); Burm. Th. ^ra«. iii. p. 453 (1856: Fernando Noronha) ; 

 Hewits. Eggs Brit. B. ii. p. 486, pi. 1.34. fig. 3 (1856) ; Meyer, 



