Aves. 165 



Order LARIFORMES. 



STERNA, Linn. 



1. Stekna vittata. 



sterna vittata, Gm., Syst. Nat., I., p. 606 (1788) ; Pelzeln, Reise Novara, Vog., 

 p. 152 (1865, St. Paul's Island) ; Saunders, P. Z. S., 1876, p. 647, 1877, p. 795 

 (Inaccessible Island, Tristan da Cunha) ; Sharpe, Phil. Trans., CLXVIII. 

 (extra vol.), p. 113 (1879, Kerguelen Island); Saunders, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., 

 XXV., p. 51 (1896) ; id., Antarctic Manual, p. 233 (1901). 



No. 15, 9 ad. Campbell Island, Oct. 15th, 1899. {Caft. Jensen.) 



On this species Mr. Howard Saunders gives the following note : — 

 " There is ample evidence that Terns are found in large numbers 

 in the South Polar Regions, and even within the Antarctic circle, for 

 Bellingshausen, of the Russian ship ' Wostok,' has recorded Terns on 

 the 18th February, 1820, 68° S., while McCormick saw one in 76° 

 52' S., and 178° W., said he had previously observed ' flocks ' on 

 the ice between 65° 66' S., and in about 158° W. On the third 

 attempt of the ' Erebus,' McCormick noticed Terns breeding on 

 Cockburn Island. Webster found birds of this family in the South 

 Shetlands, and the Dundee whalers brought back specimens from 

 that neighbourhood, which are referable to a well-known South 

 American species. Sterna hirundinacea, akin to our own common 

 Tern, though quite distinct. This distribution might be expected, 

 and it may be reasonably assumed that all the Terns found to the 

 southward of America are of this species. But the species found off 

 Victoria Land has still to be identified, and all that can be said is 

 that, inasmuch as the ' Southern Cross ' expedition obtained at Camp- 

 bell Island an adult of Sterna vittata, there is a probability that this 

 species may go as far as Victoria Land." 



2. Lakus scopulinus. 



Larus scopulinus, Gray in Dieffenb. Trav. N. Zeal., II. App., p. 200 (1843: 

 i\ew Zealand); Buller, B.N. Zeal., 2nd ed., II. p. 55, pi. XXIX. (1888); 

 Saunders, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 238 (1896). 



No. 1, imm. Campbell Island, May 2nd, 1899. {Capt. Jensen.) 

 Nos. 16, 17, i 9 ad. Campbell Island, Oct. 16th, 1899. (Capt. 

 Jensen.) 



