LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Anous stolid us antelius Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vo]. III., pt, 6, p. 159, June 25th, 1918 : Cooktown, North 
Queensland. 
Distribution. Tropical Australian Seas. 
L XXXIX. Genus MEGALOPTERUS. 
Megalopterus Boie, Isis, 1826, heft x., col. 980, Oct. Type (by monotypy) : Sterna tenuirostris Temminck et 
Laugier. 
Micranous Saunders, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol. IV., p. xix., Jan. 29th, 1895. Type (by monotvpv) : S. tenui- 
rostris Temminck et Laugier. 
Anousella Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. II., pt. 4, p. 412, Nov. 1st, 1912. Type (by original designation) : Anous 
leucocapillus Gould = A. minutus Boie. 
100. MEGALOPTERUS TENUIROSTRIS. LESSER NODDY. 
[Sterna tenuirostris Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 34e livr. (Vol, II., pi. 202), (Vol IV., pi. 104 
? May), July 26th, 1823 : “ Senegal ” errore = Seychelles. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 35 (pt. xxn.), March 1st, 1846. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 4, pi. 116, Nov. 
1st, 1912. 
Anous rnelanops Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 103, Feb. 1846 : Houtman's Abrolhos, West Australia. 
Distribution. South-west Australia. 
101. MEGALOPTERUS MINUTUS. WHITE-CAPPED NODDY. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 36 (pt. xxv.), Dec. 1st, 1846. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 4, pi. 117, Nov. 1st, 
1912. r 
Anous minutus Boie, Isis, 1844, heft 3, col. 188, March : North-east Australia. 
Anous leucocapillus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 103, Feb. 1846: Raine Island, Queensland. 
Anous atrofuscus Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 117, June 5th, 1894 : New Guinea. 
Megalopterus minutus Icermadeci Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 55, April 7th, 1916: Kermadec Isl. = 
Maekay, Queensland. 
Distribution. East Australian Tropical Seas, New Guinea. 
XC. Genus BRUCHIGAVIA. 
Bruchigavia Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 228, Oct, 1857. Type (by monotypy) : Larus novce- 
hollandice Stephens. 
102. BRUCHIGAVIA NOVffiHOLLANDIJE. SILVER GULL. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 20 (pt. xxxv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 4, pi. 120, Nov. 1st, 
1912. 
Larus novsehollandi® Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. I., p. 196, Feb. 18th, 1826 : New South 
Wales. 
Larus jamesonii Wilson, Illustr. Zool., pt. 6, pi. xxiii., 1829 : " Shores of New Holland ” = Tasmania. 
Gama gouZdii “ Bp." Bruch, Journ. fur Omith., 1853, heft 2, p. 102, March. In synonymy of jamesonii W T ilson, 
from Vandiemens Land. 
Gavia andersonii Bruch, ib., p. 102, " Neu-Seeland ” = ? New South Wales. 
Gavia pomarre Bruch, ib., p. 103, “ Gesellschaft's-Inseln ” errore = ? New South Wales. Type in Mainz Mus. 
Gelastes corallinus Bonaparte, Naumannia, 1854, p. 216 : New South Wales. 
Gelastes gouldi Bonaparte, ib., Torres Straits, Queensland. 
Not of Bruch 1853 as above. 
Bruchigavia longirostris Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 113, July 1877 : King George Sound, South- 
west Australia. 
Larus novcehollandice gunni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 212, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Tasmania. 
Larus novcehollandice ethelce Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 30, April 2nd, 1912 : Kangaroo Island. 
South Australia. 
Bruchigavia novcehollandice yorki Mathews. Nom. nov. for Gelastes gouldi Bonaparte, 1854, 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
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