Order LAR1F0RME8 
No. 144. 
Family LARIDM. 
MEGALOPTERUS MINUTUS MINUTUS. 
AUSTRALIAN WHITE-CAPPED NODDY. 
(Plate J17.)* 
Angus minutus Boie, Isis 1844, p. 188 ; Nova Hollandia=North-east Australia. 
Anous minutus Boie, Isis 1844, p. 188. 
Anous leucocapillus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.) 1845, p. 103, 1845 ; id., Birds Austr., 
Vol. VII., pi. 36, 1846 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 419, 1865 ; Saunders, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.) 1876, p. 670 ; Ramsay, Proc. Binn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 202, 1877 ; Salvador!, Ornith. Papua e Moll., Vol. III., p. 457, 1882 ; Ramsay, 
Tab. Bist Austr. Birds, p. 23, 1888. 
Anous leucocephalus Reichenbach, Vogel NeuholL, Vol. II., p. 13, 1849. 
Sterna leucocapilla Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas., Vol. VI., Sternse, p. 37, 1863. 
Anous melanogenys (not Gray) Saunders, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.) 1876, p. 670 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Binn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 202, 1877 ; Salvador!, Ornith. Papua e Moll., 
Vol. III., p. 456, 1882 ; Crowfoot, Ibis 1885, p. 264 ; Ramsay, Tab. Bist. Austr. 
Birds, p. 23, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 376, 1889 ; Cheeseman, 
Trans. New Zeal. Inst., 1890, Vol. XXIII., p. 221, 1891 ; Rothschild, Avif. Baysan, 
Vol. I., pi. 25, 1893. 
Anous atrofuscus Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1894, p. 117. 
Micranous leucocapillus Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 145, 1896 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 90, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 856, 1901 ; 
Buller, Suppl. Birds New Zealand, Vol. I., p. 163, 1905 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 90, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., p. 21, 1908 ; Iredale, Emu, Vol. X., p. 9, 
1910 ; Hull, Proc. Binn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXXIV., p. 659, 1910 ; Campbell and 
White, Emu, Vol. X., p. 200, 1910. 
Anous leucocapillus leucocapillus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 211, 1912. 
Distribution. Seas of North-eastern Australia. 
Adult male. General colour above and below sooty-black ; entire wings darker and more 
inchning to black ; tail dark plumbeous-grey ; crown of head white shading off into 
grey on the nape and merging into the sooty-black of the mantle ; lores and feathers 
in front of the eye jet black like the upper-throat ; short feathers encircling the eye 
* The Plate is lettered Micranous leucocapillus. 
Ss 
417 
