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906 Birds of Celebes: Laridae. 



complete hood in the first species, leaves a broad yellow forehead in the second, 

 a black fillet, much as in Sterna melanauchen, in the thii'd, and finally a simple 

 loral stripe of black in O.galbula. 



^386. STERNA ANAESTHETA Scop. 

 Brown-winged Tern. 



Sterna anaestheta») (1) Scop., Del. Faun, et Flor. Insubr. 1786, I, 92; (2) Saund., P. Z. S. 



1876, 664; (3) Legge, B.Ceylon 1880, 1040; (4) Gates, B. Br. Burmah 1883, n, 

 431; (5) Brd., Brew. & Ridgw., Water B. N.Am. 1884, II, 316; (6) Everett, 

 J. Str. Br. R A. S. 1889, 211; (7) North, Nests & Eggs B. Austr. 1889, 356; 

 (8) Seeb., B. Japan 1890, 301; (9) Gates ed. Hume's Nests & Eggs Ind. B. 1890, 

 m, 300; (10) Saund., Cat. B. 1896, XXV, 101. 



a. Sterna panayensis (1) Gm., S. N. 1788, I, 607; (2) Schl., Mus. P.-B., Sternae, 1863, 26. 



b. Sterna panaya (1) Lath., Ind. Gm. 1790, H, 808; (2) Finsch & Hartl., Gm. Centralpolyn. 



1867, 228, t. IV, figs. 1, 2, 3 (eggs); (3) iid., Vog. Ost.-Afr. 1870, 833. 



c. Sterna melanoptera (1) Sws., B. W. Afr. 1837, 11, 249; ? (2) Rosenberg, Zool. Garten 



1881, 167. 



d. Onychoprion panaya (I) Gould, B. Aust. 1848, VII, pi. 33. 



e. Onychoprion anaesthetus (1) Blytb, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 1849, 293; (2) "Wald., Tr. Z. S. 



1872, Vm, 104; (3) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 374; (4) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 

 1875, IX, 244, 252; (5) Salvad., Grn. Pap. 1882, m, 449; (6) W. Bias., Gmis 

 1888, 634; (7) Salvad., Agg. Gm. Pap. 1891, 212; (8) Wiglesw., Av. Polyn. 1892, 

 76; (9) Meyer, Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1893, Nr. 3, p. 29; (10) M. & Wg., ib. 189t, 

 Nr. 1, p. 15. 



/: Haliplana anaestheta (1) Swinh., P. Z. S. 1871, 422; (2) David & Gust., Gis. Chine 



1877, 528. 



g. Hydrochelidon anaesthetus (1) Heugl., Grn. N. G. Afr. 1871, 1453. 



For further synonymy and references of. Finsch & Hartlaub b 2, b 3; Salvador! e 5, e 7; 

 H. Saunders 10. 



Figures and descriptions. Gould d I; Baird, Brewer & Ridgway 5, woodcut of head; 

 Seebohm 8, woodcut of head; Finsch & Hartlaub 6 2, b 3; Heuglin^J; Legge 

 5; Gates 4; Salvador! e 5; H. Saunders 10; etc. 



Adult in winter plumage. Forehead and superciliary stripe white; crown black, with 

 white tips and edges to the feathers; occiput and nape more uniform black; re- 

 maining upper parts hair-brown, remiges and lesser wing-coverts darker, palest on 

 hind neck; from base of upper mandible to eye a band of black mixed with 

 white; rest of face, entire under parts, edge of wing, and under wing- 

 coverts white, with a cast of French grey on the body below; remiges and rectrices 

 below dusky, paling into white towards their bases, shafts white, tail forked to a 

 depth of about 10 cm {(j', Constantinhafen, New Guinea: Kubary — C 9952). 

 "Iris brown; bill and feet black" (Platen e 6). 



Breeding plumage. In breeding plumage the bird has the crown, occiput, and nape, and the 

 band from the base of the bill through the eye to the sides of the occiput uniform 

 black, forehead and supercihary stripe white. 



•) Variously spelt anaethetus, anaestheta, anostheta. 



