BIRDS OB THE INDIAN EMPIRE. 
871 
2003 . (1501) 
2004 . (1502) 
2005 . (1502) 
2006 . (1503) 
2007 . (1504) 
2008 . (1505) 
2009 . (1506) 
2010 . (1506) 
2011 . (1507) 
Sterna bengalensis zimmermanni. The Chinest, 
Small Crested Tern. 
Sterna zimmermanni Reichen., Orn. Monatshr., p. 
(1903), (Kiachao). 
East Coast China. ? Siam and Burma. 
Sterna bergii velpx. The Arabian Large Crested 
Tern. 
Sterna velox CrHzschmar, RuppdVs Atl., p. 21 (1826), 
(Coasts of Red Sea.) 
Red Sea to Persian Gulf and Ceylon. 
Sterna bergii cristata. The Australian Large 
Crested Tern. 
Sterna cristata Stephens in Shaw's Genn. Zool., xiii., 
p. 146(1826), (China). - 
Australia, S. E. China to Malay Pen., Siam and 
Burma. 
Sterna seena. The Indian River Tern. 
Sterna seena Sykes, P.Z.S., 1832, p. 171 (Deccan). 
India, Burma and N. Malay Pen. 
Sterna malanogaster. The Black-bellied Tern. 
Sterna melanogaster Temm., PI. Col., pi. 434 (1827) 
(Ceylon). 
All India and Burma. Ceylon. 
Sterna repressa. The White-cheeked Tern. 
Sterna repressa Hartert, Nov. Zool., 1916, p. 288 
(Persian Sea). 
Sea coasts from E. Arabia and Persia to 
Laccadives. 
Sterna hirundo hirundo. The Common Tern. 
Sterna hirundo Linn. S.N., i. p. 137 (1758), (Sweden 
Temperate N. America, Europe, Asia. India to 
Ceylon. 
Sterna hirundo tibetana. The Tibetan Tern. 
Sterna tibetana Saunders, P.Z.S., 1876,^. 649 (Tibet) 
Tibet, Turkestan, Himalayas. 
Sterna longipennis. Nordmann’s Tern. 
Sterna longipennis Nordm., in Erman’a Reise., p. 17 
(1835), (Ochotsk). 
Eastern coasts of Asia to New Guinea, Malay 
Pen., Ceylon (once). 
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