402 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. • 



Fam. LARIDiE. 



42. Larus atricilla, Limi. 



" Larus." 



43. Sterna ma2:iina, Bodd. 

 ' ' Sterna elegans ? " 



44. sterna dougalli, Mont. 

 "'Mauve a bee uoir.'" 



45. Sterna fuliginosa (Gm.). 

 " Sooty Tern." 



In the collection is a full-grown specimen of the young of this species, 

 in dark plumage ; it is entirely of a smoky black, with the exception of 

 the inside of the wings and a space on the lower part of the abdomen,- 

 the feathers of the back and wings are conspicuously margined with 

 white. 



This completes the series of catalogues of the birds ascertained by 

 Mr. Ober to inhabit the islands of the Lesser Antilles visited by him.* 



The result has been of very great value, and has contributed much to 

 the knowledge of the ornithology of the islands explored. There was 

 no perfect knowledge of the avifauna of any, and of some we knew abso- 

 lutely nothing. 



Yet the work is incomplete ; there are several islands that were not 

 visited, and in some of those explored there are species known to ifihabit 

 them that have not been identified. 



As 80 much has been accomi)lished, it is to be hoped that ere long an 

 investigation of the islands not examined by Mr. Ober will be under- 

 taken. 



New York, Dceemher 31, 1878. 



0!V TVTO FISHES PROITI THE BERinU1>AS jniSTAKENIiY DESCRIBED 

 AS VIEW BY DR. OtJIVTIIER. 



By O. BROWN OOODE. 



In the February number of the Annals and Magazine of Natural His- 

 tory is published a paper by Dr. Giinther, describing two "new" species 

 of fishes from the Bermudas,t collected by Mr. J. Matthew Jones, and 

 which, as a well-merited compliment to the naturalist who has so thor- 

 oughly and enthusiastically explored those islands, he has christened 

 Gerres Jonesii and Beknw Jonesii. Strangely enough, both species had 



* Those preceding it arc as follows : Dominica, p. 48 ; St. Vincent, 185 ; Antigua 

 and Barbuda, 232; Grenada, 265; and Martinique, 351. 



tOu two new Species of Fishes from the Bermudas. <Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (5th series), iii, 1879, [Feb.], pp. 150-151. 



