AVIFAUNA OF LATSAN. 



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18. H ALIPLAN A FULIGINOSA (Gm.). 



WIDEAWAKE; SOOTY TERN. 



Mrondelle de mer a grande envergure, Button, Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 3 15 (1781) (Ascension I.). 

 Sooty Tern, Lath. Gen. Svn. vi. p. 352; id. Gen. Hist. x. p. 102 (Ascension I.). 



Sterna fuliginosa, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 605 (1788) j Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 801- (1790) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 622 

 (1831) (lies Malouines) ; Licht. in Forst. Descr. An. p. 276 (1811) (note); Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp., Orn. 

 p. 386 (1858) ; Finscli & Hartl. Orn. Ccntralpolynes. p. 225 (1867) ; iid. V6g. Ost-Afr. p. 831 (1870) ; 

 Saund. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 666; Dresser, B. Europe, viii. p. 307, pi. 587 (1877) ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 103(5 

 (1880) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1881, p. 252 (Marquesas) ; Milne-Edw. & Grand. Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Ois. p. 660 

 note (1885); Ridgw. Man. N.-Amer. B. p. 45 (1887); Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. p. 379 (1889) 

 (Kauai) ; Cory, B. Bahamas, p. 214 (ed. ii., 1890) ; id. Cat. B. W. Ind. p. 83 (1892) ; Oatcs, ed. Hume's 

 Nests & Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 303 (1890) ; Young-, Ibis, 1891, p. 115 (number of eggs). 



Sterna infuscata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 81 (1823). (The types in the Berlin Museum have been examined by 

 II. Saunders. MppeU's Thalassipora infuscata (Syst. Ueb. no. 519, p. 1 10, 1815) belongs to LlaUplana 

 anmtheta : cf. Hartert, Kat. Vogels. Senckenb. Museum, p. 238, note 462.) 



Sterna oahuensis, Bloxh. Voy. Blonde, p. 251 (1826) ; Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. p. 379 (1889) 

 (critic). 



Sterna serrata, Reinh. Forst. apnd Wagl. Naturl. Syst. d. Ampliib. p. 89 (note) (1830). 

 OnychopHon serratus, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 277. 

 Planet is guttatus, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1222. 



Haliplana fuliginosa, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1224; Bp. Compt. Rend. xli. p. 1112 (1855) (Marquesas) ; Cones, 

 Ibis, 1861, p. 392; id. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 556; Bias. J. f. O. 1866, p. 81 ; Gray, Hand-list, in. 

 p. 122 (1871) ; David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 528 (1877) ; Hard. Yog. Madagascar, p. 388 (1877). 



Hydrochelidonfuliginosum, Bp. Comp. List, p. 61 (1838) ; Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 433 (1817). 



Sterna guttata, Forst. Descr. An. ed. Licht. p. 211 (1844) (juv.) (I. Paschali). 



Anous I'herminieri, Less. Descr. Ois. p. 255 (1847). 



OnychopHon fuliginosus, Gould, B. Austral, vii. pi. 32 (18 18) ; Macgill. Voy. < Rattlesnake/ ii. p. 359 (1852) ; 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 144 (Ascension) ; E. Newt. Ibis, 1865, p. 153 (Rodriguez) ; Scl. & Salvin, P. Z. S. 

 1871, p. 572 (distrib. S. America) ; Salvad. Ucc. Borneo, p. 373 (1874) ; id. Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 418 

 (1882) ; Wiglesw. Av. Polyncs. in Abh. u. Ber. Mus. Drcsd. 1890-91, p. 75 (1892). 



Sterna gouldii, Reiclib. Syn. Av. Natat. pi. xxii. fig. 8.29 (1818). 



Anous fuliyinosus, Finscli, Ncu-Gumca, p. 184 (1865). 



Sterna luctuosa, Phil. & Landb. Wiegm. Arch. £. Naturg. 1866, p. 126 (Chili). 



Adult. Forehead, sides of head, and entire lower parts, including lower wing-coverts, white, 

 with a very delicate bluish tinge on the abdomen, under wing-coverts, and under tail- 

 coverts when the birds are alive or quite fresh. Lores and upper parts, including the 

 hind neck (which is whitish in II. ancestheta (Scop.)), uniform sooty brown. Primaries 



