BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 513 
Western portion of middle Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, breed- 
ing from Bahama Islands to coast of Venezuela, and on cays of British 
Honduras (Saddle Cay; Lighthouse Reef; Southern Water Cay; 
coast near Belize); * accidental in Florida (Cape Canaveral), Georgia 
(coast, Sept., 1902), and South Carolina (Frogmore, Aug. 25, 1885). 
Haliplana panayensis (not Sterna panayensis Gmelin) Satvin, Ibis, 1866, 199 
(coast of Belize, British Honduras; crit.). 
Onychoprion panayensis ScLater and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 572, 
part (monogr.).—ZELEDON, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 36 (Costa Rica). 
[Onychoprion] panayensis ScuaTrR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 147, part. 
Haliplana panaya Sarvin, Ibis, 1864, 381 (Saddle Cay, British Honduras).— 
Cougs, Ibis, 1864, 391 (Lighthouse Reef, British Honduras; crit.). 
Haliplana discolor Couzs, Ibis, 1864, 392 (a new name for Haliplana panaya auct. 
not of Gmelin and Latham).—Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1864, 101, 
105 (Sombrero, Greater Antilles; habits; crit.).\—Exitiot, New and Unfig.N. 
Am. Birds, pt. 18, 1869 (vol. ii), pl. 57 and text. 
[Sterna] anostheta (not S. anaethetus Scopoli) Covzs, Key, 1872, 323, part 
(Florida).—Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 33. 
Sterna anosthxta Courses, Check List, 1873, no. 574.—Cory, Birds Bahama Is. 
1880, 215, pl. [8] (Long Island, Bahamas, breeding); Auk, iv, 1887, 96 (Mar- 
tinique).—Wetts, List Birds Grenada, 1886, 11. 
Sterna anosthxtus Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 77 (Bahamas, breeding; Cuba; Sombrero; 
descr.; synonymy); Birds West Ind., 1889, 278. 
Sterna (Haliplana) anxstheta Covss, Birds Northwest, 1874, 701, part (monogr.). 
Sterna anxstheta SAUNDERS, Proc.’ Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, 664, part (monogr.); 
1877, 43 (coast Great Britain); Zoologist, 1877, 213 (mouth of Thames, Eng- 
land?); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxv, 1896, 101, part (Cape Canaveral, Florida; 
Clarence Harbor, Bahamas; Jamaica; Redonda; Guadeloupe; St. Vincent; 
Grenada; Southern Water and Saddle cays, British Honduras), 457 (St. Vin- 
cent).—LawreEnce, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 68 (Dominica, breeding); 
i, 1879, 488 (Dominica) —DatetzisH, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 220 
(1 British record)—Gunpiacu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 400 (Cuba).—Har- 
TERT, Ibis, 18938, 310 (Aruba; habits; crit.)—Bonuots, Ibis, 1903, 314 
(Andros Island, Bahamas, breeding; habits)—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. 
Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1903, 408 part (Lighthouse Reef, Saddle Cay, Southern 
Water Cay, etc., British Honduras; Costa Rica; West Indies). 
@ The only actual breeding records I have found, however, are the following: Long 
Island and Andros, Bahamas; Jamaica; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Grenada; Saddle Cay, 
British Honduras. Other definite localities recorded are the following: 
Bahamas: Clarence Harbor; Booby Rock, June 8; Long Rock, off Abaco; Eleu- 
thara; Miraporvo. 
Greater Antilles: Jamaica; Porto Rico (Desechio, June 14, July 6; Aguadilla, 
June 24). 
Lesser Antilles: Sombrero; St: Bartholomew; Redondo; Guadaloupe (breeding); 
Martinique; St. Vincent; Grenada (breeding). 
Dutch West Indies: Aruba. 
Tobago. 
Bermudas. 
Costa Rica: (This, however, may be the Pacific form, S. a. nelsoni, since it is not 
stated whether specimens taken or observed in Costa Rica were on the Atlantic or 
Pacific side. 
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