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STEENA FULIGINOSA. 



(SOOTY TERN.) 



Hirondelle de mer a grande envergure, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii, p. 345 (1781). 



Sooty Tern, Lath. Synop. iii. pt. 2, p. 352 (1785). 



Sterna fuliginosa, Gmel. Syst. Nat. iii. p. 605 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Sterna infuscata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 81 (1823). 



Onychoprion, Wagl. (Sterna serrata, Forst.) Isis, 1832, p. 277. 



Planetis, Wagl. (Sterna guttata, Reinh. Forst. in MS.) Isis, 1832, p. 1222. 



Planetis guttatus, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1222. 



Haliplana, Wagl. (Sterna fuliginosa, Gm.) Isis, 1832, p. 1224. 



Haliplana fuliginosa (Gm.), Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1224. 



Hydrochelidon fuliginosum (Gm.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 61 (1838). 



Sterna serrata, Forst. Desc. An. ed. Licht. p. 211 (1844). 



Thalassipora infuscata (Licht.), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 140 (1845). 



Anous llierminieri, Less. Desc. Mamm. et Ois. p. 255 (1847). 



Onychoprion fuliginosus (Gm.), Gould, B. of Austr. vii. pi. 32 (1848). 



Haliplana infuscata, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 97 (1854). 



Sterna gouldi, Reich. Schwimmvog. Suppl. pi. xii. fig. 829. 



Haliplana gouldi (Reich.), Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 773 (1856). 



Haliplana serrata, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 773 (1856).* 



Onyclioprion fuliginosus (Gm.), Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 371. 



Sterna luctuosa, Phil. & Landb. in Wieg. Arch. 1866, p. 126. 



"Haliplana fuliginosa, var. crissalis, Baird," Lawr. Proc. Bost. N.H. Soc. 1871, p. 285. 



Hydrochelidon infuscata (Licht.), Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1457 (1873). 



Figurce notabiles. 



Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 387; Gould, B. of Austral, pi. 32; Temm. & Schl. Fauna 

 Japon. pi. 89 ; Audub. B. of Am. pi. 432 ; Wilson, Am. Orn. pi. 72. 



Ad. fronte, capitis lateribus ad oculum, mento, gula, et gutture cum corpore toto subtus albis : pileo stria, a 

 basi rostri ad oculum, nucha et corpore supra nigris, pileo et nucha nitide nigris, corpore supra fuseo- 

 nigro : cauda nigra, valde furcata, rectrice extima, utrinque alba, in pogonio interno versus apicem 

 fumoso-cinerea : rostro et pedibus nigris : iride fusca. 



Juv. sordide schistaceo-niger, subtus pallidior abdomine imo albo-cinereo, subcaudalibus cinereis : plumis 

 in corpore superis cervino-albo apicatis. 



Pullus lanugine tectus : capite, collo et corpore suprk fumoso-griseis griseo-albo guttatis : corpore subtus albo. 



Adult (Florida Keys). Forehead, sides of the head to the eye, chin, throat, and entire underparts pure 



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