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nearly allied to the Anoils tenuirostris of Western Africa, with 

 which indeed Sir William Jardine considers it to be identical ; 

 but the late Prince Bonaparte treats it as distinct in his ar- 

 rangement of the Laridcs in the ' Comptes Rendus de 1' Aca- 

 demic des Sciences' for 1856, and I shall therefore retain 

 it under the name I assigned to it. All that has been said 

 respecting the Afious stolidus is equally applicable to the pre- 

 sent species, their habits, manners, and mode of life being 

 very similar. 



Crown of the head and nape of the neck white ; lores and 

 space surrounding the eye deep black ; near the posterior 

 angle of the upper and lower eyelids a small patch of white ; 

 breast, all the under surface and the wings deep sooty black; 

 back of the neck, back, and tail the same, slightly tinged with 

 ash ; bill black ; feet brownish black. 



Total length 14 inches ; bill 2^ ; wing 9 ; tail 5 ; tarsi \ ; 

 middle toe and nail 1^. 



Genus PROCELSTERNA, Lafresnaye. 



This genus was established for two little Terns, nearly 

 allied to the members of the genus Anous, but from which 

 they differ in some minor particulars. The specific term 

 cinereus applied by me to the following species having been 

 previously employed by Neboux, the late Prince Bonaparte 

 sunk my name into a synonym, and replaced it with albi- 

 vitta, which I accordingly adopt. 



Sp. 616. PROCELSTERNA ALBIVITTA. I^^^v^ > 



Grey Noddy. 



Anous cinereus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part xiii. p. 104. 

 Pelecanopus pelecanoides, G. R. Gray, List of Birds in Coll. Brit, Mus., 



part iii. p. 180. 

 Procelsterna albivitta, Bonap. Compt. Rend, de I'Acad. Sci., 1856. 



Anous cinereus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vii. pi. 37. 

 This little species is a native of the seas bordering the 



