470 BULLETIN 60, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 
179 (Vera Cruz).—TaczanowskxI, Orn. du Pérou, iii, 1886, 439; Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1877, 749 (Santa Lucia, Peru).—Wezs, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
ix, 1887, 632 (Grenada, breeding)—Satvin, Ibis, 1889, 379 (Cozumel 
Island).—SciareR and Hupson, Argentine Orn., ii, 1889, 195.—ALLEN, 
Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 272 (Rio Parahyba, Brazil).—Scorr, Auk, 
vii, 1890, 306 (Dry Tortugas, breeding; remarks as to molt).—Warrg, Auk, 
x, 1893, 222 (Mackinac Island, Michigan).—Harrtenrt, Ibis, 1893, 309) Aruba, 
Curacao and Bonaire; crit.), 326 (Curacao), 337 (Bonaire); Novit. Zool., ix, 
1902, 308 (Aruba, Curacao, and Bonaire); x, 1903, 297 (Rio de Oro, w. Africa).— 
Sronz, Birds E. Penn. and N.J., 1894, 45 (Chester Co., Pennsylvania, 
and coast New Jersey).—F121p, Auk, xi, 1894, 120 (Jamaica).—KozNI@swaLp, 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1896, 396 (Séo Paulo, s. Brazil)—HotmsBrre, Segundo 
censo Argentina, 1898, 558.—Netson, North Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 24 
(Tres Marias Islands, May; breeding?).—Inzrine, Revista Mus. Paulista, iii, 
1899, 444 (Iguape, Sio Paula).—Bryer, Proc. La. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 
86 (coast Louisiana, breeding)—BREWSTER, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 
no. 1, 1902, 24 (La Paz, Lower California, Jan.; San Jose del Cabo, Sept., 
Oct.).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 406 (Mazat- 
lan, Sinaloa; Manzanillo, Colima; Guaymas, Sonora; Isabella Island; Tres 
Marias Islands; San Mateo and Gulf of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; Jalapa and 
Rio Rancho Nuevo, Vera Cruz; Rio Lagarto, Merida, and Cozumel Island, 
Yucatan; Belize, Glovers Reef, etc., Brit. Honduras; Chiapam, Guate- 
mala; Honduras; Costa Rica; coast of South America to Santa Catarina, 
s. Brazil, and Peru; West Indies; west coast Africa).—(?) Barney (H. H.), 
Auk, xxiii, 1906, 377 (Isabella Island, W. Mexico, breeding).2—Bzr- 
tepscH, Novit.,Zool., xv, 1908, 309 (Cayenne).—VeErRrRit (A. E. and 
A. H.), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1909, 355 (Santo Domingo).—DABBENE, 
Orn. Argentina, 1910, 211 (estuary of Rio de la Plata).—Puturrp, Auk, xxvii, 
1910, 312 (coast North Carolina, breeding).—CarrikreR, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 
vi, 1910, 414 (near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Feb.).—Grant (C. H. B.)., 
Ibis, 1911, 472 (Tuyu, Argentina, March 1).—GrinNELL, Pacific Coast Avit., 
no. 11, 1915, 24 (California; more or less common n. to Tomales Bay; formerly 
breeding on San Miguel Island).—WertmorE, Bull. 326, U. 8. Dept. Agric., 
1916, 48 (Porto Rico, Vieques, and Culebra, common visitant). 
[Sterna] maxima Scuater and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 147.—Cory, List 
Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 33.—SHarPE, Hand-list, i, 1899, 135.— 
Forses and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 54 (Mazatlan; 
Jamaica, crit.). . 
Thalasseus maximus LAWRENCE, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 1876, 51 (San Mateo, 
Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Aug., Feb.).—OBERHOLSER, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 199. 
[Phaéthusa] maxima Heinz and ReticHenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 355. 
S[terna] marima Newron (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 117. 
S[terna] (T) [halasseus] maxima Covss, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 759. 
[Sterna] cayana Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 804 (Cayenne). 
Sterna cayana TEMMINOK, Cat. Syst., 1807, 184.—ViritLoT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. 
Nat., xxxii, 1819, 168.—SrzpHens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xiii, 1825, 155.— 
Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, pt. i, 1825, 31 (Florida; crit.); 
Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1828, 353.—Nurraut, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water 
Birds, 1834, 268—AupuBon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 505, pl. 273; vi, 1839, 639; 
Synopsis, 1839, 316; Birds Am., 8vo. ed., vii, 1844, 46, pl. 429.—Ds Kay, 
N. Y..Zool., ii, 1844, 299, pl. 127, fig. 277.—Grraup, Birds Long Island, 
1844, 355.—Taytor, Ibis, 1864, 96 (Pampator, Margarita Island, Venezuela). 
a May be T. elegans and not T. maximus. 
