Order LARIF0RME8 
Family LARIDM. 
No. 140. 
ONYCHOPRION FUSCATUS SERRATUS. 
AUSTRALIAN SOOTY TERN. 
(Plate 113,)* 
Sterna serrata Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amphib., p. 89 (note), 1830 •, New Caledonia. 
Sterna serrata Wagler, Nat. Syst, Amphib., p. 89 (note), 1830. 
Sterna fuliginosa (not Gmelin) King, Surv. Intertrop. Coasts Austr., p. 422, 1826 ; Gould, 
Synops. Birds Austr., pi. 37, 1837 ; Saunders, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.) 1877, p. 796 
(pars) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 201, 1877 ; Crowfoot, Ibis 
1885, p. 266 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 23, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., 
No, 12., pp. 357, 374, 1889 ; Cheeseman, Trans. New Zeal. Inst., Vol. XXIII., p. 221, 
1891 ; Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 106, 1896 (pars) ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 89, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 844, 
1901 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 200, 1905 ; Buller, Suppl. Birds New Zeal., 
Vol. I., p. 159, 1905 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 89, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 21, 1908 ; Gibson, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 65, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. 
Birds Tasm., p. 150, 1910 ; Iredale, Emu, Vol. X., p. 8, 1910 ; Hull, Proc. Limi. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXXIV., p. 652, 1910. 
Onychoprion serrata Wagler, Isis 1832, p. 277. 
Sterna melanura Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 7, 1838 ; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 156, 1838. 
Onychoprion serratus Gray, List Gen. Birds, p. 79, 1840. 
Haliplana serrata Boie, Isis 1844, p. 190. 
Onychoprion fuliginosus Gould, Birds Austr., Vol VII., pi. 32, 1848 ; Salvador!, Ornith. 
Papua e Moll., Vol. III., p. 447, 1882 ; Etheridge, Lord Howe Isl., p. 15, 1889. 
Sterna gouldii Reichenbach, Aves Natat. Longip., pi. xxn., fig. 829, 1850. \ 
Sterna {Onychoprion) serrata Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Isl. Pac. Ocean, p. 59, 1859. \ 
Onychoprion fuliginosa Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 408, 1865. 
Anous fuliginosus Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p, 184, 1865. 
Sterna fuscata (not Linne) Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVII., p. 498, 1910 ; id., Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 320, 1911. 
The Plate is lettered Sterna fuliginosa. 
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