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Worcester recorded the bridled tern from Didikas Rocks, 

 north of Luzon. My identification of a female tern (No. 6523) 

 killed by Mr. Worcester at the above locality has been confirmed 

 by Dr. C. W. Richmond. 



Sterna fuscata Linnaeus. 



Sterna fuliginosa WORCESTER and BouRNS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 (1898), 20, 552 (Siquijor, in distribution list); McGregok and 

 Worcester, Bur. Govt. Laboratories (1906), No. 36, 21; Worcester, 

 Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1911), 6, 171, PI. IV (Maeander Reef). 



Sterna fuscata McGregor, Man. Phil. Bds. (1909), 92. 



Onychoprion fuscatus (LiNN^us), cf. Mathews, Bds. Australia 

 (1912), 2, pt. 4, 388; Oberholser, Auk (1917), 34, 199 (question 

 of genus). 



A male specimen (No. 7263) of the sooty tern from a series 

 collected by Worcester, McGregor, and Celestino on Maeander 

 Reef, Sulu Sea, on September 22, 1910, has been examined by 

 Dr. C. W. Richmond. 



Sterna sinensis Gmelin. 



Sterna sinensis McGregor, Man. Phil. Bds. (1909), 92, 727 (Polillo) ; 

 Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1910), 5, 106. 



I collected four specimens of this little tern on Polillo Island 

 on September 7, 1909, and one of these (No. 6959) has been 

 examined by Dr. C. W. Richmond. Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Curl 

 collected a male (No. 12933) of this species in Cavite Province, 

 Luzon, on October 10, 1909. Another specimen of a male (No. 

 13191) was secured by A. Celestino at Obando, Bulacan Prov- 

 ince, Luzon, on October 10, 1915. 



Sterna melanauchen Temminck. 



Sterna melanauchen McGregor, Bur. Govt. Laboratories (1905), 

 No. 25, 10 (Cresta de Gallo) ; Man. Phil. Bds. (1909), 93. 



Messrs. D. C. Worcester and A. Celestino collected a dozen 

 specimens of Sterna melanauchen on July 13, 1910, in Green 

 Island Bay, Palawan Island, where birds of this species were 

 nesting on a small sand bar. One of these specimens (No. 

 13164) and the one (No. 4502, male) recorded by me from 

 Cresta de Gallo Island, near Sibuyan, have been examined by 

 Dr. C. W. Richmond. 



Ochthodromus veredus (Gould). 



Ochthodromus veredus McGregor, Man. Phil. Bds. (1909), 108 (Pa- 

 lawan), 727 (Luzon). 



The Eastern dotterel is the rarest of the three Philippine 

 plovers that are commonly placed in the genus Ochthodromus. 



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