2i6 Messrs. G. M. Mathews and Tom Iredale: 



Genus PROCELSTERNA. 

 Procelsterna Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool. 184.2, pi. 29. 

 Type (by monotypy) : P. cerulea (Bennett). 



Procelsterna cerulea cinerea (Gould). Little Grey Noddy. 



Anous cinereus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 104: 

 north-eastern coast of Australia. 



• Synonyms : — 



Procelsterna nlhivitta Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. Paris, 

 ■ vol. xlii. 1856, p. 773 : new name for A. cinereus Gould. 

 Procelsterna cinerea Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 161. [The type-locality 



of Sterna cerulea Bennett, Narr. Whaling Voyage, vol. ii. 1840, 



p. 248, is Christmas Island.] 



Range : — Kermadec Islands (breeding-) ; New Zealand 

 [accidental visitor : one occurrpnce, Cape Maria van Diemen, 

 1882. Grant ('Ibis,' 190."3, p. 561) recorded three specimens 

 from Dusky Sound, South Island. One of us went very 

 closely into tliis matter, and it was proved that an inter- 

 change o£ labels had taken place and that the birds had been 

 procured on Curtis Island, Kermadec Group]. 



Note : — Buller, in the Suppl. vol. i. p. 162, included Anous 

 stolidus as a Kermadec breeder. One of us has already 

 pointed out that this was an erroneous quotation (Iredale, 

 'Emu,' vol. X. 1910, p. 10). 



Genus MEGALOPTERUS. 

 Megalopterits Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 980. 

 Type (by monotypy) : M. tenuirostris (Temminck). 



Megalopterus minutiis minutus (Boie). White-capped Noddy. 

 Anous minutus Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 188 : north-eastern 

 Australia. 



Synonyms : — 



Anous leucocainllus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 103 : North- 

 eastern Australia. 



Anous atrofuscus Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1894, p. 117 : 

 New Guinea. 



Micranous leucocapilhis Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 163. 

 Range : — Kermadec Islands (breeding). 



