tARlD*. 
Sterna albifrons Pall.’ Uttle Tern or Ternlet. 
[Sterna albifrons albifrons Pall. 
Sterna albifrons Pallas in Vroeg's Adumb. 1764, p, 6: Holland. 
Distr , — Extra-li m i ta 1 , ] 
Sterna albifrons sinensis Gmel. 
Sterna sine nfis Gnielin, Syst. Nat, i, pt. s, 1789, p. 60S : China, 
Distr. — Malay Peninsula (both coasts but the east especially), 
Borneo; Natuna Islands, 
Java. 
PSumatra (Straits of Malacca). 
Stern* albifrons pusilla Ternium 
Sterna pusilla Temminck, Man. d’Orn., ed. 2, 1840, p, 465 : Java. 
Distr. — Malay Peninsula (Straits of Malacca). 3 
? Sumatra (Straits of Malacca, therefore almost certainly the 
Sumatran coast). 
?Java ("apparently wintering in Java", H. C. Robinson in 
litt,). 
Stern* albifrons saundersi Hume. 
Sterna saundersi Hume, Stray Feathers, v, 1877, pp. 324 —6 : 
Karachi, India, 
Distr. — Malay Peninsula (Straits of Malacca). 
Sumatra. 
Sterna sumatrana Raffles, Black- naped Tern, 
Sterna sumatrana sumatrana Raffles, < 
.Sterna Sumatrana Raffles, Trans. Unn. Soc, xiii, 1S22, p. 329: 
Sumatra. 
Distr. — Malay Peninsula (both coasts); Ananiba Islands. 
Sumatra; Taya Island, Lingga Archipelago; West Sumatran 
Islands of Nias and Engano. 
Borneo; Natuna Islands; Karimata Islands. 
Java; Bali; Kangean Islands. 
* See Baker, Bull. B. O, C. xlix, 1928, p. 37 and Ticehurst, t.c. p. 66. 
9 Seems to be a good race, formerly known as gouldi Home (nee Reichb,), 
but the use of pusilla is perhaps not certain for it. 
s Certain specimens from the Straits of Malacca and North-east Sumatra 
can be plausibly referred this form. 
4 Probably found throughout Malaysia, along all coasts and on all 
small islands. 
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