Order LARIFORMES 
Family LARIDJE. 
No. 141. 
MELANOSTERNA AN^THETUS NOV^-HOLLANDI^. 
AUSTRALIAN BROWN-WINGED TERN. 
(Plate 114.)* 
Sterna nov^-hollandi^ Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. ZooL, Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 161, 
1826 ; New South Wales 
Sterna novce-hollandice Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. ZooL, Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 161, 1826. 
Onychoprion panaya Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 33, 1848. 
Onychoprion panayensis id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 411, 1865. 
Sterna ancestheta Saunders, Proc. ZooL Soc. (Lond.) 1876, p. 664 (pars) ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 201, 1877 ; Sharpe, Rep. ZooL Coll. “ Alert,” p. 28, 
1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 23, 1888; North, Austr. Mus. Oat., 
No. 12, p. 356, 1889 ; Saunders, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 101, 1896 
(pars) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 89, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, p. 842, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 89, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 21, 1908 ; Gibson, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 66, 1908 ; Campbell and White, 
ib., Vol. X., p. 200, 1910 ; Macgillivray, ih., pp. 218, 233, 1910. 
Sterna ancethetus anoethetus Mathews, Nov. ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 209, 1912. 
Distribution. Austrahan seas. 
Adult male in breeding-plumage. Crown of head, nape, and lores black ; wings, scapu- 
lars, back, and middle tail-feathers dark brown ; small coverts round the bend 
of the wing white ; inside webs of primary-quills paler and becoming white towards 
the base ; this is more especially shown on the secondaries ; outer tail-feathers 
for the most part white, the terminal portion blackish on the inner webs ; forehead 
and a narrow hne over to behind the edge white hke the throat, breast, and under 
wing-coverts ; abdomen and under tail-coverts grey ; bill and feet black ; iris lead- 
colour. Total length 430 mm. ; culmen 40, wing 260, tail 218, tarsus 23. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult in winter-plumage. Similar to the adult in breeding-plumage, but lores and the 
crown of the head mottled with white. 
Immature male. Wings dark brown ; entire back ash-brown, the feathers edged with 
white ; upper tail-coverts paler with no white edges ; middle tail-feathers similar, 
sHghtly fringed with white on the inner webs, outermost pair of feathers white 
at the base and fringed with white at the tip on the outer webs ; forehead and 
lores white, the latter with a few dark dots which indicate the black of the adult ; 
head black with white margins to the feathers, which imparts a streaked appear- 
ance ; hind-neck very pale grey ; entire under-surface pure white. 
* The Plate ia lettered Sterna ancestheta. 
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