10 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. ix. 



criticism of the '' Di.striVjution Abroad " given in the Ifnitil- 

 List, this is certainly wrong, and should read : — 



" Breeds in Europe from the shores of southern Sweden 

 to the Mediterranean, along the coasts of northern Africa, 

 in the Canaries and on Madeira, and in north-west Asia 

 as far as Turkestan. It winters in Africa and in Asia as far 

 north as India, Burmah, Malacca and Java. Replaced 

 by allied forms in Syria, Egypt, the Malay Archipelago, 

 the China Seas and Japan, Australia, America, and perhaps 

 parts of Africa." 



422.. Sterna fuscata L. 



Sterna fuscata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII., I., j). 228 

 (1706 — San Domingo. Ex Brisson, Oin. VI.. p. 220, pi. xxi., 

 fig. 1). 



instead of Sterna fnlujinosa (xm. '' I queried 8. fuscata 

 because the tail in Brisson's figure is merely slightly emargiu- 

 ated, and even our youngest specimens show the deep fork 

 in the tail. Mr. Iredale's suggestion {Ihis, 1914, p. 437) 

 that ' I imagined without investigation ' {sic) that the young 

 of Sterna anmstheta and of the present species must be alike, 

 is groundless, as young of both species are represented in 

 the Tring Museum. Nevertheless, I now agree that there 

 is not sufficient reason to query the name of Linnaeus, which 

 has also been adopted in the American O.U. Check-List.' — 

 E. H. 



Add— 



433 A. Larus fuscus affinis Heijihardt. — THE 



BRITISH LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. 



See Brit. B., VI., pp. 2-7 and j), 3G(). 



The distribution of 433 Larus J. fuscus as given in the 

 Hand-List must of course be altered. So far there are only 

 a few definite records of its occurrence in Great Britain, 

 and 433A is of course the form which breeds in the British 

 Isles. 



452. Chlamydotis undulata macqueenii (Gray and 



Hardw.) 

 instead of Iloubara u. tnacqucenH (Grav and Hardw.). It 

 is stated in the B.O.II. List (1915. p." 388) that Uouhara 

 Bonaparte is a nomen nudum and therefore cannot Ix' usetl. 



463. Lyrurus tetrix britannicus WitlKMby and jjonn- 



berg.— THE BRITISH BLACK GROUSE 

 instead of Lyrurus tetrix tetrix (L.). See liriti.^h liirds. \"|. 

 p. 270. 



