STERNA. 



conspicuous. The eggs measure from 

 from 1*15 to 1*3 in breadth. 



1. Saddle Cay, Brit. Honduras, 10th 



May (O. Sakin). 

 15. Curlew Cay, Brit. Honduras, 14th 



May (O. &). 

 9. Island 16 miles south of Bushire, 



Persian Gulf, 13th July (E. A. 



Butler). 

 36. Island of Allah, Persian Gulf, 1st 



June (E. A. B.). 



2. Island of Allah, 29th May (E. A. 



B.). 



1. Tungistan Island, Persian Gulf, 8th 



June (E. A. B.). 



2. North Australia (J. Macgillivray). 

 6. Montalivet Island, N.W. Australia, 



7th July. 

 1. Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia. 



3. Australia. 

 3. Polynesia. 



191 



1-6 to 1-88 in length, and 



Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 

 Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Voy. H.M.S. < Rattlesnake.' 

 P. W. Bassett Smith, Esq. 



Gould'Coll. 



Earl of Derby [P.]. 



Saunders Coll. 



Sterna fuliginosa, Gm. 



Sterna fuliginosa, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ixxxii. fig. 5 (1845- 

 54) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 307 (1877) ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. 

 p. 1036 (1880) ; Saunders, Zool < Challenger ' Exped. ii. pt. viii. 

 p. 136 (1880) ; Sclater, t. c. p. 151 (1880) ; Baird, Brewer $ Ridgiv. 

 Water Birds N. Am. ii. p. 312 (1884) ; Milne-Edwards fy Grandidier, 

 Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. ii. p. 660, pi. 308. figs. 7, 7 a (1885); 

 Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 292, pi. 48 (1885) ; MacFarkine, Ibis, 

 1887, p. 213 ; North, Nests # Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 357, pi. xxi. 

 fig. 1 (1889) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 303 

 (1890) ; Lister, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 296; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 104, pi. 30. figs. 4-6 (1896) ; Saunders, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. 

 p. 106 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l i. p. 136 (1899). 



Haliplana fuliginosa, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 32. fig. 5 (1855-63). 



Onychoprion fuliginosa, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 408 (1865). 



The eggs of the Sooty Tern are of much the same type as those of the 

 Panayan Tern, but are somewhat larger ; the surface-markings are 

 coarser and of a brighter reddish brown, and they frequently blend 

 together at the broad end, to form an irregular cap or zone ; the 

 ground is more persistently of a cream-colour, and comparatively 

 few eggs are tinged with pink; the underlying markings are 

 generally large and show up well. Specimens measure from 1'85 

 to 2-2 in length, and from 1-25 to 1/5 in breadth. 



1. North America (Henshaw Coll.). 



2. Tortugas, Florida (S. L. Greenwood: 



Henshaw Coll.). 



2. Florida Cays (H. E. Dresser). 

 4. Florida (Holbert : Henshaiv Coll.). 



1. Ruatan Is., Honduras. 



2. Pedro Cay, Jamaica (E. C. Taylor). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Saunders Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



