124 HAWAIIAN BIRDS. 



Sterna melanaucheii Temm. 



Two specimens are reported by Mr. Bryan to be in the Bishop 

 Museum which were taken at Mana on the island of Kauai by Mr. 

 A. F. Judd during the winter of 1892-93. "Both have the white 

 foreheads assumed by this species, while the remainder of the 

 plumage is badly worn." 



December 24, 1901, a third specimen of this tern was obtained 

 at Hakalau by Mr. H. Beveridge during a severe and prolonged 

 storm. The bird evidently was a wanderer and had left the sea 

 to seek shelter on the land. It is in excellent plumage. The bill 

 of this specimen is black, the extreme tip lighter. The legs and 

 feet in life were orange, or perhaps red. Mr. Bryan has kindly 

 compared this bird with the museum specimens and his remarks 

 are added. "The Museum specimens are much more badly worn. 

 The bills are horn black, with lighter tip; the feet indicate red, 

 though very much discolored. The black patch in front of eye 

 is better defined in your specimen, and the Museum specimens 

 have more dark feathers about the carpal joint. I should judge 

 your bird to be adult while ours are more immature." 



The tern is of far southern distribution in the Pacific, occur- 

 ring through Polynesia generally, the Philippines and on the 

 Chinese coast. It is probably entirely accidental in the Hawaiian 

 Islands. 



Description. — Adult. "Crown always white, sometimes with a brownish 

 tinge; nape, orbit, and ear coverts black; mantle pale gray; in front of 

 the eye a black triangular patch, the point of which does not reach to the 

 base of the bill; from the eyes a black band extending ^bout the back 

 of the head; band broadened and more or less prolonged down the back 

 of the neck; neck and under parts white; mantle and rump pearl gray; 

 shafts of the primaries white ; outer primary with the outer web blackish, 

 streak next the shaft on the inner web blackish or grayish black." Length 

 about 13.25-13.50. (Bryan.) 



Anous stolidus (Linnaeus). Noddy Tern. 



This tern was found by Palmer breeding upon French Frigate 

 and Laysan Islands, and hence may be expected to occur as a 

 visitor on the Hawaiian group from where, however, no present 

 record of it exists. 



