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Genus STEENULA. 

 Sternula Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 563. 

 Type (by subsequent designation) : *S^. albifrons (Yroeg). 



Sternula nereis davisae, subsp. n. New Zealand Fairy Tern. 



Synonyms : — 



? Sterna alba (not Span-man) Potts, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. iii. 



1871, p. 106 : South Island. 

 Sterna nereis Bailer, Suppl. vol. i. p. 161. [The type-locality of 



Sternula nereis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1842, 1843, p. 140, 



is Bass' Strait.] 



Range : — New Zealand (bi'eeding). 



Note : — The New Zealand specimens are distinctly 

 separated from tlie Australian forms by their larger size and 

 darker coloration, the black lores being also more extensive. 

 Measurements : S. n. davisa : culmen 34-35 ; wing average 

 200 mm. : typical birds have the culmen 33 and the wing 

 under 185 mm. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus ONYCHOPRION. 

 Onychoprion Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 277. 

 Type (by monotypy) : O.fuscatus (Linne). 



Onychoprion fuscatus serratus (Wagler). Australian Sooty 

 Tern. 



Sterna serrata Wagler, Natiirl. Syst. Amphib. 1830, p. 89, 

 note : New Caledonia. 



Synonyms : — 



Sterna melanura Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt. iv. App., 1838, 

 p. 7 : New South Wales. 



Sterna gouldi Eeicheubach, Aves Natat. Longip. xxii. 1848, f. 829 : 

 West Australia. 



Sterna fuliyinosa Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 159, [The type-locality 

 of Sterna fuscata Linne, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. 1766, p. 228, 

 is S. Domingo, West Indies ; and Sterna fuliginosa Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 605, is an absolute synonym. Linne's 

 description is of a young bird, but is clearly applicable to this 

 bird only.] 



Range : — Kermadec Islands (breeding) j extralimital. 



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