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STERNID45. 
Hcib. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 
Bay, Wide Bay District, New South Wales, Victoria and South 
Australia, West and South-West Australia, South Coast New 
Guinea. {Ramsay.) 
Genus STERNULA, Boie. 
STERNULA NEREIS, Gould. 
Fairy Tern. 
Gould, JTandbk. Bds. Aunt., Vol. ii., sp. 607, p. 402. 
This little Tern is found all over the south coast of Australia, 
the islands of Bass’s Straits and Tasmania. The late Mr. S. White 
obtained a number of the eggs of this species in South Australia, 
they wore deposited in a slight depression in the sand, and were 
two in number for a sitting, of a pale bluish-stone colour, marked 
all over but particularly towards the thicker end with dark umber- 
brown and nearly obsolete spots of bluish-grey, the latter colour 
in some instances predominating and appearing as if beneath the 
surface of the shell. Length (A) 143 x 098 inch; (B) 144x1 inch. 
This species breeds during the months of November and 
December. (Dobr. Mas. Coll.) 
Hub. Wide Bay District, New South Wales, Victoria and South 
Australia, Tasmania, West and South-West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
Genus ANOUS, Leach. 
ANOUS STOLID US, Linnaeus. 
The Noddy. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Rds. dust., Vol. ii., sp. 613, p. 413 . 
The Noddy ranges over the whole of the Australian coast 
line, and is particularly plentiful on the islands in Torres Straits, 
