LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Sylochelidon strenuus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xiii., Vol. VII., pi. 22, March 1st, 1846 : Port Stephens, New 
South Wales, error = Tasmania. 
Hydroprogne tschegrava yorki Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 126, Jan. 28th, 1915 : Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
LXXXII. Genus THALASSEUS. 
Thalasseus Boie, Isis, 1822, heft V., col. 563, May. Type (by subsequent designation. Gray, p. 79, 1840) : S. 
cantiaca Gmelin = S. sandvicensis Latham. 
ActocheUdon Kaup, Skizz. Entwick.-Gesch. Nat. Syst., p. 31, (pref. April) 1829. Type (by monotypy) : S. cantiaca 
Gmelin = S. sandvicensis Latham. 
Pelecanopus Wagler, Isis, 1832, heft 3, col. 277, March. Type (by monotypy) : Sterna pelecanoides King. 
90. THALASSEUS BERGII. CRESTED TERN. 
[ Sterna bergii Lichtenstein, Verzeichn. doubl. Zool. Mus. Berlin, p. 80, (pref. Sept.) 1823 : Cape of Good Hope. 
Extra-limital.J 
Gould, Vol. VII., pis. 23, 24 (pt. xxxiv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 3, pi. 106, 
Sept. 20th, 1912. 
Sterna peleeanoidesKing, Survey Intertrop. Coasts Austr., Vol. II., p. 422, “ 1827 ” = April 26th, 1826; Torres Strait. 
Sterna poliocerca Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. n., pi. (37), April 1st, 1837 : Tasmania. 
Sterna novcehollandice Pucheran, Revue Zool., Oct. 1850, p. 545, Nov. ex Cuvier MS. : Nouvelle Hollande, Coll, by 
Peron and Lesueur = Tasmania. 
Not of Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 161, 1826. 
Pelecanopus nigripennis Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. KLII., p. 772, May 1856. New name 
for “ S. novcehollandice Cuv.” 
Thalasseus bergii gwendolence Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 208, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Perth, South-west 
Australia. 
Distribution Australia generally and Tasmania. 
91. THALASSEUS BENGALENSIS. LESSER CRESTED TERN. 
[Sterna bengalensis Lesson, Traite d’Om. 8e livr., p. 621, June 11th, 1831 : India. Extra-limital.J 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. xxv. (pt. xxxvi.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 3, pi. 107, Sept. 
20th, 1912. 
Sterna media Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., pt. I., p. 199, 1821 : Java. 
Not Vieillot, Tabl. Ency. Meth. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 347, 1820. 
Thalasseus torresii Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 140, Feb. 1843 : Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Thalasseus bengalensis robini Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 55, April 7th, 1916: Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland, Northern Territory, North-west Australia. 
LXXXIII. Genus STERNA. 
Sterna Linne, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 137, Jan. 1st, 1758. Type (by tautonymy) : Sterna hirundo Linne. 
Ghelido Billberg, Synops. Faune Scand., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 193, 1828. New name for Sterna Lin. (c/. Austral Av. Rec., 
Vol. II., pts. 2, 3, p. 42, Oct. 23rd, 1913). 
Thalassaea Kaup, Skizz. Entwick.-Gesch. Nat. Syst., p. 97, (pref. April) 1829. Type (by monotypy): Sterna 
dougallii Montagu. 
Hydrocecropis Boie, Isis, 1844, heft 3, col. 178, March. New name for Sterna Auet. 
92. STERNA DOUGALLII. ROSEATE TERN. 
Sterna dougallii Montagu, Ornith. Diet. Suppl., 1813, pref. June, no pag. : Scotland. Extra-limital.J 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 27 (pt. xxxi.), June 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 4, pi. 108, Nov. 
1st, 1912. 
Sterna gracilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 76, Oct.: Houtman’s Abrolhos, West Australia; and 
again in 1847, p. 222, March 29th, 1848. Same locality. 
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