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APPENDIX. 
P. 135. Read albostriata, and the date is Oct. 1845 (part x., ii 
of Birds). 
P. 139. Add as synonyms of striata : 
Sterna frontalis Gray, Voy. ‘ Erebus ’ and 4 Terror,’ Birds, pt. x. (iii. of 
Birds) p. 19, Oct. 1845 (pi. 20 t ): New Zealand. 
Sterna albifrons Peale, U.S. Explor. Exped. vol. viii. Birds, p. 279, Oct. 
1848: Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Not Vroog (ox Pallas MS.), 
Cat. Rais. d’Ois., Adumb. p. 6, (before Sept.) 1794. 
If the genus Sternula is not admitted, then melanorhyncha 
must be called 
Sterna striata sancti-pauli Gould. 
Sterna sancti-pauli Gould, Handbook Birds Austr. vol. ii. 
p. 399, Dec. 1865. New name for melanorhyncha Gould, 
1848 ; not Lesson, 1847. 
For Sterna striata bethunei Buller read : 
Sterna striata aucklandorna Mathews. 
Sterna striata aucklandorna Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 
vol. 1. p. 19, Nov. 28th, 1929. New name for Sterna 
bethunei Buller, 1896, as quoted ; not id., ib. p. 348.. 
For Sterna vittatn bollonsi M. & T. read: 
Sterna vittata bethunei Boiler. 
Sterna bethunei Buller, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1895 vol. xxviii. 
p. 348, June, 1896 : Bounty Island, New Zealand (ex 
Travers MS.). 
P. 143. Leucanous albus roth^childi (Hartert). 
Gygis alba rothschildi Hartert, Nov. Zool. vol. xxxiv. p. 18, 
Aug. 10th. 1927 : Laysan Island, north-west of Sandwich 
Islands. 
Distr .— Laysan Island. 
P. 148. For Bruchigavia melanorhyncha Buller read : 
Bruchigavia bulleri (Hutton). (25-233.) 
Black-billed Gull. 
P. 151. Read Catarractes parasita var. camtschatica Gray, List Spec. 
Brit. Animals, pt. ix. p. 132, 1852, (pref. Feb. 16th) as 
synonym of pomarinus (ex Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. 
vol. ii. p. 312, 1811 : nude name). 
P. 153. Add as synonym of finschi Martens : 
H(rmalo'pus reiacheJn Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. x. p. iv, 
Oct. 31st, 1899: Kaiparu, Now Zealand. 
