tropical islands of the pacific ocean. 59 



Sterna lunata. 



Sterna lunata, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped. p. 382. 



Low or Paumotu Islands (Vincennes Island). 



Sterna (Sternula) melanacchen (?). 



Sterna melanauchen, Temm. PI. Col. 427 ; Gould, B. of Austr. 

 vii. pi. 28. 



Loyalty Islands ; New Caledonia. 



Sterna (Onychoprion) serrata. 



Sterna fuliginosa, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 605? 

 Haliplana serrata, Pr. B. Compt. Rend. 1856, p. 772. 

 Haliplana fuliginosa, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1224. 

 Onychoprion fuliginosus 1 , Gould, B. of Austr. vii. pi. 32. 

 Sterna serrata, Forst. Descr. &c. p. 276; G. Forst. Icon. ined. 110. 

 Onychoprion serrata, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 277. 

 Sterna guttata, Forst. Descr. &c. p. 211. 

 Sterna oahuensis, Bloxh. Byron's Voy. p. 251. 

 Haliphana panayensis, pt., Pr. B. Compt. Rend. 1856, p. 772. 

 Ellis's Icon. ined. 55. 



'Taa' of the natives of the Marquesas Islands. 

 New Caledonia ; Low or Paumotu Islands ; Sandwich Islands ; 

 Cook's Islands ; Turtle and Christmas Islands ; Marquesas Islands. 



GyGIS CANDIDA. B.M. 



White Tern, Lath. Gen. Syn. hi. p. 363. 



Sterna Candida, Forst. Descr. &c. p. 179 ; Gmel. S. N. i. p. 607; 

 Mus. Carls, t. 11 ; Ellis's Icon. ined. 56 ; Banks's Icon. ined. 33. 



Sterna alba, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 808. 



Gygis Candida, Wagl. ; Gould, B. of Austr. vii. pi. 30. 



' Tera-p6pa ' or ' Itae ' of the natives of the Society Islands. 



'Epeirai' or ' Pirae' of the natives of Otaheite. 



Tonga Islands (Eaoowe or Eooa, Tongatabu) ; Feejee, Samoan, and 

 Low Islands ; Marquesas Islands (St. Christina or Waitahoo) ; So- 

 ciety Islands (Otaheite, Huaheine, Borabora or Bolabola) ; Coral, 

 Christmas, and Turtle Islands; Caroline Islands; Gilbert's Islands. 



Note. — The late Prince Bonaparte gives three species in Compt. 

 Rend. 1856, p. 773 : viz. Gygis alba, Sparrm. ; G. Candida, Forst. ; 

 and G. Napoleonis, Pr. B. ; but I have not met with any characters 

 by which he distinguishes them from one another. 



Anous stolidus. 



Sterna stolida, Linn. S. N. i. p. 227 ; Kittl. Kupf.Vog. t. 34. f. 1. 

 Anoiis niger, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 140. 



Anous stolidus, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. 1841, p. 100 ; 

 Gould, B. of Austr. vii. pi. 34. 

 Megalopterus stolidus, Peale. 

 ' Oiyo ' of the natives of the Society Islands. 

 Society Islands (Otaheite) ; Sandwich Islands ; Low or Paumotu 



