Report of a Mission to Guam. 2r 



Australia, and Pacific islands. Probably resident on the island of 

 Saipan, Marianas. 



4. Anous stolidus (Linn.). Fahan. Noddy. 



The Noddv, Catesby. Nat. Hist. Carolina, 1737, I., p. 8S. 



Strnfa .sfoiida, Linn., Syst. Nat., 175S, ed. XL, p. 17;,; Kittl. Kupfertaf, III., p. 27. 



.l/ioiii i/olzdiis, Gray, Gen. B., p. 100 ; Saunders, Cat. Brit. Mus. B., XXV., p. 136 ; Wiglesw. Av. 



Polv. Ber. abh. u. Mus. Dresden, 1890-91, p. 76; Rothschild, Av. I.aysan, 189^, I., p. 41; 



Haftert. Nov. Zool., 1S98, V., p. 68. 

 Ajwhs stolidus pilcatus (Scop.), Hartert, Nov. Zool., VI., p. 9. 



The natives tell me this bird is very abundant on the island of 

 Saipan. In Guam it is not ver)^ common ; a few were seen on the 

 cliffs near the entrance of the harbor of San L,uis de Apra. The 

 five specimens secured were shot on the northeast end of the island, 

 where a small number were seen flying along the beach. These 

 specimens are much darker in color than those from Laysan and 

 Oahu, H.I. The measurements were as follows: — 



One specimen, No. 9589, was a young male, the color of which 

 was not so dark as in the adults ; the gray coloring is restricted to 

 the forehead ; there is a white superciliary band extending from 

 posterior of the eye to the upper mandible. The chin has not yet 

 acquired the brown feathers of the adult, but is still covered with 

 a gray down. There is a dark wing bar on top of wings. Hab. 

 Tropical and juxta-tropical seas. . 



Genus GYGIS Wagi^kr. 

 5. Gygis alba kittlit^ji Hartert. Chung. White Tern. 



Gygis alba-kitllitzi. Hart., Vogels. Mus. Senckenb., p. 237; Id. Nov. Zool.. V.. p. 67. 



Sterna nivea, F. Bennett, Whaling Voy., 1840, I., p. 37. 



Gygis Candida, Wagl., Isis, 1832, p. 1223; Finsch, Ibis, 18S0, pp.330, 434; Tristr. Ibis, 1881, p. 



251 : Saunders, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 149. 

 Gygis alha. Licht., Noraencl. Av., 1854, p. 97 ; Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godef., 1875, VIII., p. 43; 



Roth. Avif. Laysan, I., p. 35 (pi. and eggs). 



Chung, the White Tern, is an abundant bird on Guam and 

 undoubtedly nests on the island, although I did not succeed in 

 finding the eggs. They congregate in the breadfruit trees in the 

 mid.st of the jungle, and the beauty of their pure white plumage 

 among the green leaves is very striking: — 



.Musfion 

 No. 

 057S 

 9.5S0 

 0.581 

 9.583 

 9584 

 9579 



The spread of the wings is about 26, and the depth of the bill 

 at the nostrils is .31-. 33. The entire plumage of the adult is ivory 



