202 OX TKE BIEDS OF CELEBES. [1872. 



LARID^E. 

 Stekmx^. 



Htdrochelidox, Boie. 



184. Htdrochelidox xigra (Linn.), Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 227 (176G); Schlegel, Mus. 

 Pajs-Bas, Stemce, p. 31. 



Jlrih. Northern Celebes {Forsten, fide Schlegel); Northern Africa; Southern Europe; 

 Northern and Eastern Asia. 



I include this species on Professor Schlcgel's authority. It lias not been recorded from any 

 other island of the ^lalay archipelago, although found throughout China {Swinlioc). Its 

 occurrence in India i"ests on the evidence of specimens collected by Dr. L. Stewart (Jerd. B. of 

 India, iv. App. p. 875) ; in what part of India, is not mentioned. 



185. HTDROcnELiDOX LEUCOPAREiA (Natterer), Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. ii. p. 746 (1820), 

 "Hungary;" Yemer, Atlas, pi. 



Sfcrm f/nsea, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 199, " Java " (1822). 



hyhrida, Pallas, Zoog. llosso-Asiatica, ii. p. 338 (1831), "Volga;" Schlegel, Mus. Pays- 



Bas, Sternw, p. 32. 



Viralva inclica, Stephens, Shaw, Gen. Zool. Aves, xiii. p. 109, "India" (1825), ex Lath. 

 Gen. Hist. x. p. 103. no. 5. 



Sterna delamotta, Vieill. Ency. Mcth. Orn. Add. i. p. 350, " Europe " (1823). 



similis, J. E. Gray, lllust. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 70. f. 2, ex India (1832). 



Ilydrochelidon Jlimatilis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 140, "interior of New South Wales." 



delalandii, Bp. Compt. Rend. xiii. p. 773, "Cap. B. Spei " (185G). 



Ilah. Lake of Gorontalo, Sth of October, female passing into winter plumage {Forsten), 

 Pontianac, in Borneo (Diard); abundant in India (Jerdou); Ceylon (mus.nostr.); S.AV. Formosa 

 (Stvinhoe); interior of Australia {Gould); Cape York {mus. nostr.); Java {Ilorsjicld); South 

 and South-eastern Europe ; Northern and Western Africa. 



Tr. Z. S. viii. OxTCnoPRiox, Wagler. 



P-l^-*- 18G. OxYciioPRiox MELAN.\UCHEX (Temm.), PI. Col. 427, "Celebes" (April 25th, 1827); 



Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Stcrnce, p. 28 ; Finsch & Hartl. Centralpolyn. p. 224 ; S. Midler, 

 Verhandel. Land- en Volkenk. p. 125. 



Sterna sumatrana, Eaffles, Trans. Liun. Soc. xiii. p. 320, " Sumatra" (1822). 



Ilah. Celebes {JReinicardt) ; Teniate, Morty, Raou {Bernstein) ; west coast of New Guinea 



{S. Midler) ; common in the straits and bays of the Lobo district (-S". Midler) ; Bay of Bengal 



^Jerdon); Nicobars {Bh/th); Andamans {W(ddeii)* ; New Caledonia {Verreaiuv) ; Loyalty 



Islands {G. B. Graij); Yiti-Levu, Ovalu, Stewart Islands {Finsch J: Uartlauh) ; Cape York {Mac- 



gilliiraij) ; Sumatra {Baffles). 



• [Antecl, p. 32.— Ed.] 



