BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND NOT FIGURED BY BULLER. 
The name of the New Zealand sub-species is Sterna vittata bethunei, collected by 
Travers, who obtained a specimen on the Bounty Islands. The description reads: 
“ It is a lovely bird, presenting a general resemblance to Sterna Antarctica, but 
with a snow-white tail and legs of arterial red ”. Buller, recording this, says 
that this form was not new to science, as it had been described by Gmelin 
[in 1789]. Mr. Bethune states that it occurs at the Snares and on Campbell 
Island as well as on the Bounties. There were four specimens of this bird in 
the collection made by the “ Challenger ” Expedition, from Betsy Cove and 
Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen Island. That is the type locality. 
The use of Sterna bethunei on p. 348 prevents the use of the same 
combination for the Auckland Island sub-species of Sterna striata as bethunei, 
on p. 349. I renamed this form Sterna striata aucklandoma in the Bulletin of 
the British Ornithologists’ Club, Vol. L., p. 19, November 28th, 1929. 
