2i4 M(^ssrs. G. jVI. Mathews and Tom Irediile : 



Sterna striata striata Gmelin. New Zealand White- 

 frouted Tera. 

 Sterna striata Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 609 : New 

 Zealand. 



Synonyms : — 



Sterna frojitalis Gray, Voy. ' Erebus' and ' Terror,' Birds, 1845, 



p. 19 : New Zealand. 

 Stei-na albifrons (not Pallas) Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Zool. 



1848, p. 279 : Bay of Islands, North Island 

 Sterna frontalis Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 158. 



Range : — New Zealand (breeding). 



Sterna striata bethunei Buller. Auckland Islands White- 

 fronted Tern. 



Sterna bethunei Buller, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. xxviii. 

 1896, p. 349 : Auckland Islands. 



Synonym : — 



Sterna bethunei Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 159. 



Range: — Auckland Islands (breeding); ? Chatham Islands 

 (breeding). 



Sterna vittata bollonsi, subsp. n. New Zealand Sub- 

 antarctic Tern. 



Synonyms : — 



Sterna bethunei Buller, Trans. New Zeal. In.st. 1895, vol. xxviii. 



p. 348, 1890, uora. nudum. 

 Sterna vittata Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 158. [The t\'pe-locality of 



Sterna vittata Gmelin, Sy.st. Nat. 1789, p. 609, is Kerguelen 



Island.] 



Range: — Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand 

 (breeding). 



Note : — The New Zealand specimens of this species diflFer 

 from typicM birds in their lighter coloration both above and 

 below and probably also in their shorter wing-measurement : 

 wing under 260 mm., wing in typical form over 275 mm. 



Type in the British Museum. 



