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out its range;* accidental in Bermudas (1 specimen, Sept. 12, 1854) 
and off British Islands (2 records). 
[Sterna] stolida Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 187 (West Indies; based on 
The Noddy Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 1731, 88, fig. 88; La Mouette brune 
Brisson, Orn., vi, 1760, 199, pl. 18, fig. 2); ed. 12, i, 1766, 227; Amoen. Acad., 
iv, 1759, 240.—Gmeuin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 604.—Laruam, Index Orn., 
ii, 1790, 805. 
Sterna stolida Boppazrt, Tabl. Pl. Enl., 1783, 58 (Pl. Enl., pl. 997).—Temmincx, 
Cat. Syst., 1807, 184.—ViE1LLo7, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 178, 
part, pl. G3, fig. 3—CarmicHagrt, Trans. Linn. Soc., xii, 1819, 497 (Tristan 
da Cunha, breeding)—Werner, Atlas, Palmipédes, 1828, pl. 9.—Bona- 
parte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1828, 356.—Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 620, 
part.—Maximiuian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1833, 874.—Nurraut, Man. 
Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 285.—AupusBon, Orn. Biog., iii, 
1835, 516, pl. 275; v, 1839, 642; Synopsis, 1839, 322; Birds Am., 8vo. ed., 
vii, 1844, 123, pl. 440.—Tuompson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835, 84 (off 
Ireland); Mag. Zool. Bot., i, 1837, 459 (off Ireland) —Jznyns, Man. Brit. 
Vertebr., 1835, 270.—GouLp, Birds Europe, v, 1837, pl. 421 and text.— 
D’Orsieny, in La Sagra’s Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 213.—Scuinz, Europ. 
Faun., 1840, 377.—YarRRELL, Brit. Birds, iii, 1843, 417; 2d ed., 1845, 531.— 
Dra@uann, Orn. Eur., ii, 1849, 335.—THompson, Birds Ireland, iii, 1851, 
308.—BurMEISTER, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii,1856, 453 (Fernando Noronha).— 
Hewirson, Eggs Brit. Birds, ii, 1856, 486, pl. 134, fig. 3—Mervyer, Brit. 
Birds, vii, 1857, 113, pl. 298.—ScHLEecEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, vi, Sternae, 1864, 
36, part.—Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc., xi, 1867, 97 (Santo Domingo).—Hartine, 
Handb. Brit. Birds, 1872, 170.—Srrsoum, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 294, 
pl. 49 (eggs). 
St[erna] stolida Martens, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 222 (Bermudas). 
Megalopterus stolidus BonaParts, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 61.—Govuzp, in 
Darwin’s Zool. Voy. ‘Beagle,’ iii, 1841, 145, part (St. Paul Rocks, Atlantic 
Ocean).—Macerttvray, Man. Brit. Orn., pt. ii, 1842, 236; Brit. Birds, v, 
1852, 672.—ALBREcHT, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 207 (Jamaica). 
M{egalopterus] stolidus KrysEruine and Buastus, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. xcviii, 
248. 
Anous stolidus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 100; List Birds Brit. Mus., Anseres, 
1844, 180; Cat. Brit. Birds, 1863, 244.—ReicHENBAcH, Syst. Nat., 1850, pl. 
4.—CaBanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1857, 234 (Cuba).— Lawrence, in Baird, Rep. 
Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 865; Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1865, 106 (Sombrero; 
breeding habits); Proc. U: S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 277 (Grenada, breeding), 
488 (Dominica).—Bairp, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 696.—Bryant, Proc. 
Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 183 (Bahamas, breeding).—ALBRECcHT, Journ. fiir 
Orn., 1861, 58 (Bahamas).—Gunp.acn, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 94 (Cuba; crit.); 
1874, 314 (Porto Rico); 1875, 395 (Cuba; habits); 1878, 163, 191 (Porto 
Rico); Orn. Cubana, 1876, 311.—Covss, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 
& Breeding localities for which definite records are at hand are the following: 
Bahamas: Washerwoman Cay, Andros Island; Miraporvos Islands. 
Greater Antilles: Jamaica; Porto Rico, including Mona and Desecheo islands. 
Lesser Antilles: Sombrero; St. Vincent; Guadeloupe; Grenada. 
Off Venezuela: Trinidad; Los Hermanos Island. 
Off Brazil: St. Paul Rocks; South Trinidad. 
Off British Honduras: Curlew Cay; Southwest-of-all Cay. 
Off southern Africa: Ascension Island; Tristan da Cunha; Inaccessible Island. 
