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LARIDiE. 
Order LARIFORMES. 
Family LAIM Dili. 
Sub-Order LARI. 
Genus CHLIDONIAS Rafinesque. 
ChI t do nias Rafinesque, Kentucky Gazette, vol. xxxvi. (newSer. vol. i.) 
No. 8, Feb. 21st, 1822 (p. 3, col. 5). l'yp e (by monotypy) : Sterna 
melanops Rafinesque — Sterna surinamemis Gmelin. 
Hif tiro ch el id on Boio, Isia, heft 5, col. 563, May 1822. Typo (by subsequent 
designation, Gray, p. 100, 1841): Sterna nigra Linn£. 
Viralm Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. vol. xiii. pt. i. p. 1GG, Feb. 18tli, 1826 
(ex Leach MS.). Type (by subsequent designation, Cones, Proo. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Philad. p. 554, 1862): Sterna nigra Linin' 1 . 
Pelade* Kaup, Skizz. Entwick.-Gesch. Nat. Syst. p. 107 (prof. April), 1829. 
Type (by monotypy): Sterna leucopareia Temminck. 
Chlidonias leucoptera (Temminck). 
Distr .—Europe, Asia, and south to Australia. 
[Chlidonias leucoptera leucoptera (Temminck). (25-G.) 
Sterna leucoptera Temminck, Manuel d’Orn. p. 483, 1815 (pref. 
1814): Mediterranean Sea. (Fig. Dresser, viii. pis. 530-591.) 
Distr. —Europe and Asia. Extra-limital.] 
Chlidonias leucoptera grisea (Horsfield). 
Sterna grisea Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. vol. xiii. p. 199, 
May 1821 : Java. (Fig. Math. pi. 102.) 
Hgdrochelidon leucoptera belli Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. iii. p. 55 
April 7th, 1916 : Lord Howe Inland. 
Distr. —Winter visitor to Australia. Extra-limital. 
Chlidonias leucopareia (Temminck). 
Distr. —Europe, Asia, Africa, and south to Australia. 
[Chlidonias leucopareia leucopareia (Temminck). (25-10.) 
Sterna leucopareia Temminck, Manuel d’Orn. 2nd ed. vol. ii. p. 746, 
before Oct. 21st, 1820: Hungary, Europe. (Fig. Dresser, viii! 
pis. 588-9.) 
Distr. —Europe and Asia. Extra-limital.] 
Chlidonias leucopareia fluviatilis (Gould). 
Hgdrochelidon Jl acini ills Gould, Proo. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1842, 
p. 110, Fob. 1843: Interior of New South Wales. (Fig. Gould! 
Austr. vii. pi. 31.) 
Distr .— Eastern and Southern Australia. 
