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19. ANOUS STOLIDUS (JW). 



NODDY. 



Sterna stol'ida, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. i. p. 137 (1758) ; id. cel. xii. p. 227 (1766); Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 005 

 (1788) ; Wied, Dcitr. iv. p. 874 (1832) j Kittl. Kupfcrtaf. iii. p. 27 (Caroline Is.), pi. 30. fig. 2 (not fig. 1, 

 as erroneously given in the text); id. Reise, i. p. 3G4, ii. pp. 77, 8G (Carolines, Scnjawin Is., Ualan) ; Burm. 

 Syst. Ueb. Th. Brasil. iii. p. 53 (185G) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Sterna, p. 3G (1863); id. P. Z.S. 18GG, 

 p. 426; Schleg. & Poll. Kccli. Faun. Madagasear, p. 149 (18G8). 



La Mouette brune (Gavia fusca) , Briss. Orn. vi. p. 192, pi. xviii. fig. 2 (17G0) (N. America) (adult). 



Hirondelle de mer brune {Sterna fusca) , Briss. Orn. vi. p. 220, pi. xxi. fig. 1 (17G0) ("Dominieensi Insula") 

 (young). 



Sterna fuscata, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. i. p. 228 (17GG) (founded on Brisson's Sterna fusca) ■ Gm. Syst. Nat. 



i. p. C05 (1788) (young). 

 Sterna senex, Leach, in Tuckey's Expcd. Congo, App. p. 408 (1818) (obtained by Cranch). 



Anous niger, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 140, pi. 17 (1825), and Anous fuscatus, ibid, (young of the 

 same species) . 



Annus spadicca, Steph. Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 143 (1825) (young). 



Megalopterus stolidus, Boie, Isis, 182G, p. 980; ? Gould, Voy. < Beagle/ p. 145 (1841) (Galapagos). 

 Sterna umcolor, Nordm. in Erm. Verz. d. Thicre u. Pflanzen, p. 17 (1835). 



Anous stotidus, Gray, Gen. B. p. 100 (1841) ; Gould, B. Austral, vii. pi. 33 (1848) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, 

 p. 18G (Caroline Is.) ; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 391 (1858) ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 233 (Ccntr. 

 America) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1803, p. 430 (Formosa) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 9 (Huahcinc) ; Newt. Ibis, 18G5, 

 p. 153 (Rodriguez) ; Finsch & Hartl. Fauna Centralpolynes. p. 234 (1807) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Nat. Hist. xii. 

 p. 307 (18G9) (Sandwich Is.) (?partim) ; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afrika's, p. 835 (1870) ; Melliss, Ibis, 

 1870, p. 107 (St. Helena) ; Hartl. & Finsch, J.f. O. 1870, pp. 122, 402 (Tonga) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 113 

 (Pelew) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1459 (1873); Salvad. Ucc. Borneo, p. 379 (1874); Finsch, Mus. 

 Godeffr. viii. p. 42 (Vogel der Palau Gruppc) (1875) ; Saund. P. Z. S. 187G, p. GG9; Tristr. Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 200 (New Hebrides) ; Hartl. Vog. Madagascar, p. 391 (1877) ; David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 529 

 (1877) ; Lcgge, B. Ceylon, p. 1043 (1880) ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 453 (1882) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. 

 p. 10(1889); Lister, P. Z. S. 1891, pp. 29G, 300 (Phoenix Is.) ; Oatcs, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. 

 B. iii. p. 315 (1890); Young, Ibis, 1891, p. 140 (number of eggs one only) ; "YYiglesw. Av. Polynesia?, in 

 Abh. u. Ber. Mus. Dresden, 1890-91, p. 70 (1892) ; Cory, Cat. B. W. Ind. p. 82 (1892). 



Megalopterus tenuiro&tris, Riipp. (ncc Tcmm. !), Syst. Uebers. p. 140, no. 520 (1845). 



Anous yileatus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 501 (184G). 



Anous tenuirostris, Heugl. (ncc Temm.), Ibis, 1859, p. 351 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1801, p. 273. 



Adult. Top of the head light grey, getting darker and merging gradually dark into the sooty 

 brown of the hind neek. All the rest of the plumage dark sooty brown, like the hind 



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