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Procelsterna cerulea teretirostris (Lafresn.). 
Sterna teretirostris Lafresnaye, Key, Zool. 1841, p. 242: no loc.= 
Paumotu Islands. 
Procelsterna tereticollis Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool. 1842, pi. 20 : error for above. 
Megnlopteriis plumbeus Peale, U.S. Explor. Expod., Birds, p. 285, 1848: Hondcn 
Island. 
Distr. —Paumotu, Marquesas, and Society Islands. 
Genus ANO ifS Stephens. 
Anous Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. vol. xiii. pt. i. p. 130, Feb. 18th, 
1826 (ex Leach MS.). Type (by subsequent designation, Gray, 
p. 79, 1840) : A. niger Stephens=& stolida Linne. 
Stolida Lesson, Traite d’Orn. 8elivr. p. 620, June 11th, 1831. Type (by mono- 
typy): 8. stolida Linne. 
Gtaofo Swainaon, Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 373, July 1st, 1837. Type (by mono- 
tvpy) : Gavin leucoceps Swnmnon = Sterna stolida Lixm£. Not Forster, 
Knehirid. Hint. Nat. p. 38, 1783. 
AganapUron Glogor, Hand- u. Hilfsb. Naturg. livr. 8, p. 4G3 (early), 1842. 
Type (by monotypy): 8. stolida Linne. 
Noddi “ Cuvier," Gray, Genera Birds, vol. iii. p. 661, Jan. 1846: in synonymy 
of Anous. m . 
“ Nodinus Rafinosque ?,” Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 131, Oct. 1855 : m 
synonymy of Anous. 
Anoiis stolidus (Linne). 
j)i s t r. —Am erica to Tristan da Ounlia and Pacific Islands to 
Australia. 
[ Anoiis stolidus stolidus (Linne). (25-136.) 
Sterna stolida Linn6, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 137, Jan. 1st, 1758 
West Indies. 
Distr. — West Indies and Atlantic Ocean. Extra-limi till.] 
Anoiis stolidus gilberti Mathews. 
Anous stolidus gilberti Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. ii. p. 405, Nov. 1st, 
1912: Bodout Island, West Australia, (tig. Gould, Austr. vii. 
pi. 34 ; Math. pi. 115.) 
Anous stolidus antelius Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. m. pt. 6, p. 159, 
Juno 25th, 1918 : Cooktown, North Queensland. 
])i s tr. —Tropical Australian Seas. 
Anoiis stolidus unicolor (Nordmann). 
Sterna unicolor Nordmann, in Erman, Nat. Altlas Boise Erde, p. 17, 
1837 : Society, Paumotu, and other Pacific Islands. 
Anous frater Cones, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1862, p. 558 : South Pacific. 
Distr. —South Pacific Islands. 
Genus MEGALOPTERUS Boie. 
Megalopterus Boie, Isis, Oct. 1826, heft x. col. 980. Type (by mono- 
tvpy) : Sterna tenuirostris Tern mi nek. 
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