Order LARIF0RME8 
No. 145. 
Family LARI DM 
PROCELSTERNA CERULEA CINEREA. 
GEEY NODDY. 
(Plate 118 .) 
Anotjs cinereds Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 104 ; North-east Coast of 
Australia. 
Anous cinereus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1845, p. 104 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. VII., 
pi. 37, 1848 ; Bennett, Gath. Naturalist, p. 241, 1860 ; Crowfoot, Ibis 1885, p. 265 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 2nd ser., Vol. II., p. 678, 1888 ; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 23, 1888 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 78, 1888 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 376, 1889 ; Cheeseman, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 
1890, Vol. XXIII., p. 222, 1891. 
Procelsterna alhivitta Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci., Paris, Vol. XLII., p. 773, 1856 ; 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 420, 1865. 
Sterna cinerea Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas., Vol. VI., Sternse, p. 38, 1863. 
Anous alhivitta Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, Vol. III., p. 123, 1871. 
Anous albivittatus Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 776. 
Anous cceruleus Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 202, 1877. 
Procelsterna cinerea Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 135, 1896 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 89, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 850, 1901 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 89, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 21, 1908 ; 
Iredale, Emu, Vol. X., p. 9, 1910 ; Hull, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXXIV., 
p. 656, 1910. 
Procelsterna cerulea cinerea Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 210, 1912. 
Distribution. North-east Australia ; Lord Howe, Norfolk and Kermadec Islands ; 
Friendly Islands. 
Adult male. General colour above ash-grey, paler and inchning to white on the head, 
sides of face and entire under surface of body, including the under wing-coverts ; 
under tail-coverts ash-grey like the upper surface ; inner webs of outer primary- 
quills inchning to black near the shaft, the innermost portion becoming whitish ; 
most of the secondaries grey margined with white at the tips ; short feathers 
encirchng the eye, black in front and white on the hinder portion ; “ Bill black ; 
iris blackish-blue ; tarsi and toes black, webs lemon yellow ” (Kreft). Total 
length 279 mm. ; culmen 29, wing 207, tail 120, tarsus 24. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male but smaller. 
Immature. Differs from the adult in being dark slate-grey both above and below, the 
wings being somewhat darker than the back and the primary-quills inchning to 
black. 
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