358 STEENIDJE. 



. Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 

 Bay, Wide Bay District, New South Wales, Victoria and South 

 Australia, West and South- West Australia, South Coast New 

 Guinea. {Ramsay.) 



Genus STERNULA, Boie. 



STERNULA NEREIS, Gould. 

 Fairy Tern. 

 Gould, Randbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 607, p. 402. 



This little Tern is found all over the south coast of Australia, 

 the islands of Bass's Straits and Tasmania. The late Mr. S. White 

 obtained a number of the eggs of this species in South Australia, 

 they were deposited in a slight depression in the sand, and were 

 two in number foi- a sitting, of a pale bluish-stone colour, marked 

 all over but particularly towards the thicker end with dark umber- 

 brown and nearly obsolete spots of bluish-grey, the latter colour 

 in some instances predominating and appearing as if beneath the 

 surface of the shell. Length (A) 1 -43 x 0-98 inch ; (B) 1 44 x 1 inch. 



This species breeds during the months of November and 

 December. (Dohr. Mus. Coll.) 



Hah. Wide Bay District, New South Wales, Victoria and South 

 Australia, Tasmania, West and South- West Australia. {Ramsay.) 



Genus ANGUS, Leach. 



ANGUS STOLIDUS, Linnaeus. 



The Noddy. 



Gould, Handbh. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 613, p. 413. 337" 5. 



The Noddy ranges over the whole of the Australian coast 

 line, and is particularly plentiful on the islands in Torres Straits, 



