196 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



in America, the Malayan Archipelago, the China Seas and Australia, 

 and (according to Zarudny and Loudon) in Persian Baluchistan. 



STERNA FULIGINOSA 



422. Sterna fuliginosa Gm. THE SOOTY TERN. 



? Sterna fuscata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. xn, i, p. 228 (1766 Dominica. 



Ex Brisson). 



STERNA FTJLIGINOSA Gmelin, Syst. Nat.,i, ii, p. 605 (1789 " Habitat in 



mari atlantico, americano, indico, australi." Selected typical locality : 



New York, type in Mus. Lever., fide Latham). 



Sterna fuliginosa Gmelin, Yarrell, in, p. 562 ; Saunders, p. 653. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Six. Tutbury near Burton-on-Tren 

 (Staffs.), Oct., 1852. Near Wallingford (Berks.), June 21, 1869 

 Near Bath (Somerset), Oct. 4 or 5, 1885 (Saunders, p. 653). Near 

 Brandon (Suffolk), Mar. or April, 1900 (W. G. Clarke, Zool., 1903, 

 p. 393; Brit. B., n, p. 308). Hulme, near Manchester (Lanes.), 

 Oct. 9, 1901 (Saunders, Bull. B.O.C., xn, p. 26 ; Brit. B., n, p. 308). 

 Brighton (Sussex), April 24, 1911 (A. F. Griffith, Bull. B.O.C., 

 xxvii, p. 95 ; Brit. B., v, p. 81). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Tropical and sub-tropical seas, but almost 

 unknown on Pacific coast of South America. Wanders occasionally 

 northwards as far as Maine in North America, the Azores, and 

 Europe ; once Germany, once France, once Italy. 



[Sterna anastheta Scop. THE LESSER SOOTY TERN. 



STERNA AN^THETUS (evidently misprint for ancestheta) Scopoli, Del. 



Faun, et Flor. Insubr., i, p. 92 (1786 Ex Sonnerat : Island of Panay, 



Philippines). 



Sterna ancestheta Scopoli, Yarrell, in, p. 565 (in text) ; Saunders, p. 654 



(in text). 



DISTRIBUTION. England. One alleged taken on a lightship, mouth 

 of Thames, Sept., 1875, " but the evidence is slightly imperfect " 

 (Saunders, p. 654). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Tropical and intertropical seas, but 

 possibly separable into various races. Nearest breeding-places to 

 British Isles are apparently those in Bahamas and West Indies, 

 or on the coasts of west Africa.] 



[NOTE. Two specimens of the NODDY TERN, Anous stolidus stolidus (L.) 

 (Sterna stolida Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 137 (1758 In the " American 

 Sea " : West Indian seas meant) ) alleged to have been shot between Tuskar 

 Rock and Dublin about 1830, were brought in skinned by the captain of a 

 vessel, and the evidence is not considered sufficient by R. J. Ussher (c/. List 

 Irish Birds, p. 48 ; Brit. B., n, p. 248). Another, alleged to have been shot 

 on the Dee Marshes, is not authentic (Birds Cheshire, p. 229 ; c/. Yarrell, in, 

 p. 567 ; Saunders, p. 655). Anous stolidus stolidus appears to be distributed 

 throughout the Atlantic from Florida Keys and coast of Louisiana to 



