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Sterna dougalli gracilis Gould. (t.l., west Australia.)
N. Cal.: Macgillivray; Deplanche; Layard, etc.
Amédée islet: Layard. Layard says (Ibis, 1882, 540) it "breeds some years in thousands on the sandbanks in the encircling reef near the Amédée island lighthouse." Eggs found Jan. 1.
Sterna (or Gygisterna) s. sumatrana Raffles. (t.l., Sumatra.)
N. Cal.: Deplanche; Layard.
Sternula nereis exsul Mathews. (t.l., New Caledonia.)
N. Cal.: Layard ("breeds on the islands off Ansevata."). Eggs found Sept. 3 and Nov. 3. Layard refers to this bird as S S. placens, Wiglesworth as S. sinensis, and Saunders (who had the specimens before him) as S. nereis. Mathews has since named the N. Cal. form as exsul.
Thalasseus bergii rectirostris (Peale). (t.l., Fiji Islands.)
N. Cal.: Marie; Layard. Brasil identifies the Loyalty Ids. bird as T. poliocerous (Gould), but both probably belong under rectirostris.
Onychoprion fuscatus (Linnaeus). (t.l., Santo Domingo, W. I.)
N. Cal.: Layard.
Belep Ids.: Forster. On Sept. 16, 1774, Forster collected the types of Sterna serrata Wagler (= fuscatus) in the vicinity of the Belep Ids.
Oedicnemidae.
Orthorhamphus m. magnirostris (Vieillot). (t.l., Timor.)
N. Cal.: Deplanche; Marie; Layard; Sarasin.
Huon Ids.: Layard ("common").
Scolopacidae.
Phaeopus phaeopus variegatus (Scopoli). (t.l., Luzon, P.I.)
N. Cal.: Marie; Deplanche; Layard; Sarasin.
Vetola lapponica baueri (Naumann). (t.l., Australia.)
N. Cal.: Layard; Sarasin.
Heteroscelus incanus (Gmelin). (t.l., Eimeo and Palmerston Ids.)
N. Cal.: Verreaux; Layard; Sarasin.
Pisobia acuminata (Horsfield). (t.l., Java.)
N. Cal.: Marie.