lU. MICKAN0U8. 



145 



a, 6. cJ 5 ad. sk. He Plate and He Cousine, Sey- 

 chelles, Oct. & Nov. 

 c. ad. ; d. (S He Cousine, Seychelles. 



imm. .sk. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Mauritius {Bewsher). 



g. Imm. sk. Mauritius. 



h. Imm. sk. Mauritius. 



i. Imm. sk. Rodriguez I. 



k. Ad. sk. Rodriguez I. 



/. Ad. sk. Houtman's Abrolhos, West 



Australia, Jan. 2Uth, 184;j 



{Gilbert), 

 m. Ad. St. Houtman's Abrolhos {Gilbert). 



n. Skeleton. Rodriguez I. {Rer. H. H. 



Slater). 



II. Saunders Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Rev. H. H. Slater 



[C.]. 

 Sir John Kirk [P.]. 

 H. Saunders Coll. 



J. Gould [C.].^ 

 Transit of Venus 

 E.xped. 



2. Micranous leucocapillus. 



Sterna tenuirostris, Kiftlitz (nee Teinm.), Kupfert. Vog. p. 28, pi. 26. 

 tig. 1 (183.3: St. Pieleua) ; id. Jieise, n. p. 64 (1858 : Kushai I.); 

 Bennett, Gath. Naturalist, p. 241 (1860 : Norfolk Is., &c.). 



? Anous minutu.-i, Boie, Isis, 184J, p. 188 (" New Holland ''). 



Anous leucocapillus, Gould, P. Z. S. 184-j, p. 10-'3 (Raine Islet, 

 N.Australia); id. B. Austr. vii. pi. t;6 (1848): Macyill. Nan: 

 Vog. Eattksn. ii. p. 359 (1852) ; Bp. C. B. xlii! p. 773 (1856) ; 

 Cassin, U.S. E.ipl. E.vp. p. 393 (1858) ; Grag, P. Z. 8. 1858, 

 p. 198 ; id. Cat. B. N. Guin. p. 63 (1859) ; id. Cat. B. Trap. Is. 

 Pacific, p. 60 (1859) ; Hartl. Ibii, 1864, p. 232 (Fiji) ; Finscli, 

 N.-Guin. p. 184 (1865) ; Gould, Hundb. B. Austr. ii. p. 419 (1865) ; 

 Blasius, J.f. O. 1866, pp. 82, 86 (revision) ; Fimck i^- Hartl. Faun. 

 Centralpolgn. p. 237 (1867); Grag, Hand-list B. lii. p. 123, 

 no. 11088 (1871); Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 322 (Indian Ocean) ; 

 Lagard, P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 497, 504; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 670, 

 pi. Ixi. tig. 3 (revision) ; Masters, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. IV. 1877, 

 p. 64 (Nepean I.) ; Ramsag, op. cit. 1878, p. 202 ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 

 1877, p. 781 (Ponap6) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 273 (EUice Is.) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1878, p. 415 (Sarawak) ; id. Phil. Tr. clxviii. p. 468 

 (1879); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 410 (1882); id. 

 Orn. Papuasia etc. iii. p. 457 (1882) ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. ii. 

 p. 435 (188.3); Finsch, Vog. Siidsee, p. 52(1884: Marshall Is. &: 

 New Guinea) ; W. 0. Grant, P. Z S. 1887, p. 333 (Solomon 

 Is.); Ramsag, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 211 (18a8); Ridleg, Zool. 

 1888, p. 43 (Fernando Noronha) ; Everett, B. Borneo, p. 211 (1889) ; 

 Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 10 (1889) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, p. 149 

 (N. Rorneo) ; Wiglesio. Abh. zool. Mus. Dresd. 1890-91, no. vi. 

 p. 77 (1892: Polynesia); Stone, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1874, pp. 115- 

 117 (critical). 

 Anous melanogenys, Grag, Gen. B. iii. p. 661, pi. 182 (1846); 

 Reichenb. Natat. tab. cccxxxi. tig. 2624 (1850j ; Bp. C. R. xlii. 

 p. 770 (1856) ; Krefft, Ibis, 1862, p. 131 ; Gray, Hand-list B. iii. 

 p. 123, no. 110,^5 (1871) ; Saunders, P. Z. S. 187(i, p. 670, pi. Ixi. 

 tig. 2 (revision Sternins) ; Cab. ^- Reichenow, J.f. O. 1876, p. 327 

 (Tonga Is.); Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 557 (Admiralty Is.) ; Finsch, 

 f. c. p. 781 (Pelew Is.) ; Saunders, t. c. p. 798 (St. Paul's Rocks, 

 Tristan da Cuniia, &c.); id. Journ. Linn. Soc. .xiv. p. 404 (1878: 

 distribution); Ramsag, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1878, p. 202; 



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