LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
LXXXVI. Genus ONYCHOPRION. 
Onychoprion Wagler, Isis, 1832, heft 3, col. 277, March. Type (by monotypy): Sterna scrrata Wagler = S. fuscata 
Linn6. 
Planetis Wagler, Isis, 1832, heft 11, col. 1222, Nov. Type (by monotypy) : 5. guttata ex Forster MS. = S. fuscata 
Linn e. 
Haliplana Waglor, Isis 1832, heft 11, col. 1224, Nov. Typo (by monotypy): Sterna fuliginosa Gmelin =* 5. fuscata 
Linn6. 
Thalassipora Riippell, Svst. TJobcrs. Vogel Nord-ost Afrika, p. 140, 1845. Type (by monotypy): 5. infuscata 
Lichtenstein = 5. fuscata Limi6. 
Dipsaleon G is tel, Naturg. Tliierr. Scliul., p. x., 1848 (pref. Easter 1847). New name for Planetis Wagler. 
97. ONYCHOPRION FUSCATUS. SOOTY TERN. 
[Sterna fuscata Linn6, Syst. Nat. 12th od., p. 228, (pref. May 24tli) 176G : Santo Domingo, West Indies. Extra- 
limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 32 (pt. xxvni.), Sept. 1st, 1847. Mathews, Vol. II., pt, 4, pi. 113, Nov. 1st, 
1912. , 
Sterna serrata Wagler, Natur. Syst. Amphib., p. 89 (note), 1830 (ex Forster MS.) : New Caledonia. 
Sterna melanura Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. rv., App., p. 7, April 1st, 1838 : New South Wales. 
Sterna gouldii Roichenbach, Aves Natat. Longip., pi. XXII., f. 829, 1848 : West Australia. 
Onychoprion fuscatus kermadeci Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 55, April 7th, 1916 : Kermadec 
Is. = Long Reef, Sydney. 
Distribution. Tropical Australian Seas. 
LXXXVII. Genus MELANOSTEItNA . 
Melanosterna Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XV., p. 373, 1846 [= 1847 ?]. Type (by monotypy): Sterna 
ancethetus Scopoli. 
98. MELANOSTERNA ANCETHETUS. BRIDLED TERN. 
Sterna ancethetus Scopoli, Del. Flor. Fauna? Insub., pt. ii., p. 92, 1786: Philippine Islands. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 33 (pt. xxxv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 4, pi. 114, Nov. 
1st, 1912. 
Sterna novaehollandiae Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. I., p. 161, Feb. 18th, 1826 : New South 
Wales. 
Melanosterna ancethetus rogersi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 126, Jan. 28th, 1915 : Admiralty Gulf, 
North-west Australia. 
Distribution. Tropical Australian Seas. 
LXXXVIII. Genus A NOUS. 
Anous Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 139, Feb. ISth, 1826 (ex Leach MS.). Type (by 
subsequent designation, Gray, p. 79, 1840): A. niger Stephens = *5. stolida Linn6. 
Stolida Lesson, Trait6 d’Orn., 8e livr., p. 620, June 11th, 1831. Type (by monotypy): *8. stolida Linn6. 
Gavia Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 373, July 1st, 1837. Type (by monotypy): Gavia leucoceps Swainson 
= Sterna stolida Linnd. 
Aganophron Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb. Naturg., livr. 8, p 463, (early) 1842. Type (by monotypy) : S . stolida Linne. 
Noddi M Cuvier ” Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 661 > Jan. 1846. In synonymy. 
“ Nodinus Rafinesque ? ” Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 131, Oct. 1855. In synonymy. 
99. ANOUS STOLIDUS. NODDY. 
[Sterna stolida Linne, SyBt. Nat., 10th ed., p. 137, Jan. 1st, 1758 : Atlantic Ocean. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VII., pi. 34 (pi. xxii.), March 1st, 1846. Mathews, Vol. II., pt. 4, pi. 115, Nov. 
1st, 1912. 
Anous stolidus gilbert! Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. II.,pt. 4. p. 405, Nov. 1st, 1912 : Bedout Island, West Australia. 
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