EASTERN WHITE-SHAFTED TERNLET. 
remarkable feature of the Chinese birds I have examined is the length of the 
streamers. As Hume pointed out some of the Indian birds show white shafts 
to the outer primaries. 
Sternula albifrons pusilla Temminck. 
Can this name be used for the “ Malayan Archipelago allied form ” mentioned 
above ? The birds I have seen from the East Indies do not agree with those 
from India, and certainly Javan specimens are not identical with West 
European ones. 
Sternula albifrons placens Gould ; East Australia. 
As will have been already noted this subspecies breeds in East Australia, and 
is not identical with the Chinese bird, which does not winter in Eastern 
Australia. 
Sternula albifrons tormenti Mathews ; North-west Australia. 
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