186 LARID,E. 



Genus ANGUS, Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 1. 

 p. 139(1825). & 



Anous = avoos (trisyllable), without understanding (voos, i>os), foolish. / ' 



Anous stolidus. NODDY. 



Sterna stolida, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 227 (1766). 



Megalopterus stolidus, Macg. v. p. 672. 



Sterna stolida, Hewitson, p. 486 ; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 531 ; 



id. ed. 3, iii. p. 537; Harting, p. 170. 

 Anous stolidus, Gray, p. 244. 

 The Noddy Tern, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 417. 



Stolidus = stupid ; allied to stultus = foolish. 



Two or three specimens are recorded as having been 

 obtained off the coast of Ireland. It occurs in all the inter- 

 tropical seas. 



Subfamily LARIN^E. 

 Genus PAGOPHILA, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 69 (1829). 



Pagophila, from Kayos = a high pointed rock, and 0t\ew = I love. 



Pagophila eburnea. IVOEY GULL. 



Larus eburneus, Phipps, Voy. towards N. Pole, p. 187 



(1774). 



Larus eburneus, Naum. x. p. 341 ; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 567 ; 



id. ed. 3, iii. p. 586; Harting, p. 174. 

 Cetosparactes eburneus, Macg. v. p. 508. 

 Pagophila eburnea, Gray, p. 237; Gould, v. pi. 62; Dresser, 



viii. p. 349. 

 The Ivory Gull, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 449. 



Ebwrneus of ivory, ebur. 



An occasional straggler in winter to the British coasts ; 

 more frequent in the northern districts. It is a circumpolar 

 species, breeding in Spitsbergen, 



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