LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Anons stolidus antelius Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 6, p. 159, June 25th, 1918: Cooktown, North 
Queensland. 
Distribution. Tropical Australian Seas. 
LXXXIX. Genus MEGALOPTERUS. 
Megalopterus Boie, Isis, 1826, heft x., col. 980, Oct. Type (by monotypy) : Sterna tenuirostria Temminck et 
Laugier. 
Micranous Saunders, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol. IV., p. xix., Jan. 29th, 1895. Type (by monotypy): 5. lenui - 
roslris Temminck et Laugier. 
Anousella Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. H., pt. 4, p. 412, Nov. 1st, 1912. Type (by original designation): Anous 
lencocapillus 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 M errore = Seychelles. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 35 (pt. XXII.), March 1st, 1846. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 4, pi. 116, Nov. 
1st, 1912. 
Anous melanops Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 103, Feb. 1846 : Houtman’s Abrollios, 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. 
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 atrof uscus Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., p. 117, June 5th, 1894: New Guinea. 
Megalopterus minutus kermadeci Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 55, April 7th, 1916 : Kermadec Isl. = 
Mack ay, Queensland. 
Distribution. East Australian Tropical Seas, New Guinea. 
XU Genus BitUCHIGA VIA. 
Bruehigavia Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 228, Oct. 1857. Type (bv monotvpy): Larus nova- 
hollandice Stephens. 
102. BRUCHIGAVIA NOVjEHOLLANDI^E. SILVER GULL. 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 20 (pt. xxxv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. II., pt, 4, pi. 120, Nov. 1st, 
1912. 
Larus novsehollandise 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. 
Gavia gouldii Bp. Bruch, Journ. fur Omith., 1853, heft 2, p. 102, March. In synonymy of jamesonii Wilson, 
from Vandiemens Land. 
Gavia andersonii Bruoh. ib., p. 102, “ Neu-Seeland ” = ? Now South Wales. 
Gavia pomarre Bruch, ib., p. 103, “ Gosellschaft’s-Inseln ” errore = ? Now South Wales. Type in Mainz Mus. 
Gelastes corallinus Bonaparte, Naumannia, 1854, p. 216: New South Wales. 
Gelastes goaldi Bouaparto, ib., Torres Straits, Queensland. 
Not of Bruch 1853 as above. 
Bruehigavia longiroHris Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 113, July 1877 : King George Sound, South- 
west Australia. 
Larus novcehollandia. gunni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 212, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Tasmania. 
Larus novathollandias ethelas Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2. p. 30, April 2nd, 1912: Kangaroo Island, 
South Australia. 
Bruehigavia novivhollandite yorlci Mathews. Nom. nov. for Gelastes gouldi Bonaparte, 1854, 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
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