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Show 1871.] ON NEOTROPICAL LARID2E. 567 Genus 2. N_ENIA*, Boie. 1. NiENIA INCA. Sterna inca, Less. Zool. Voy. Coq. p. 731, t. 47 (1826). Anous inca, Gray, Gen. iii. p. 661; Pelz. Orn. Novara-Reise, p. 156. Ncenia inca, Bp. C. R. xiii. p. 773. Noddi inca, Gay, Cat. Aves Chil. p. 50. Inca mystacalis, Jard. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 32. Larosterna inca, Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 293 (1849). Hab. Coast of Peru (Less., Tsch.) ; coast of Chili (Ph. et Landb.). Genus 3. PHAETHUSA, Wagler. 1. PHAETHUSA MAGNIROSTRIS. Hati cabeza negra, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 373. Sterna magnirostris, Licht. Doubl. p. 81 (1823) ; Max. Beitr. iv. p. 861; Hartl. Ind. Azar. p. 26 ; Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 81, t. 104 ; Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. 761; Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 305 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 324 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 450, et La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 519 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 593 et p. 979. Hab. Guiana (Schomb.); Lower Amazon (Wallace); Upper Amazon, Pebas (Hauxwell) ; rivers Huallaga and Ucayali (Bartlett); S. E. Brazil (Max. et Burm.); Rio Parana (Burnt.); Cuyaba (Natt.) ; Paraguay (Azara) ; coast of Peru (Tsch.). Genus 4. STERNA, Linn. 1. STERNA MAXIMA. La grande Hirondelle de Mer de Cayenne, Buff. Pl. Enl. 988. Sterna maxima, Bodd. Sterna cayennensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 608; Leotaud, Ois. de Trin. p. 535. Sterna cayana, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 804. Thalasseus cayanus, Gosse, B. Jam. p. 431. Sterna regia, Gamb. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. iv. 128; Baird, B. N. A. 859. ' Thalasseus regius, Coues, Ibis, 1864, p. 388 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1866, p. 198; Gundl. Repert. F. N. i. p. 392. Sterna erythrorhynchos, Max. Beitr. iv. 857; Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 305 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 450. Hati coyote obscuro, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 372(?). Sterna chloripoda, Vieill. N. D. xxxii. p. 171, et E. M. p. 349? Hab. West Indies, Cuba (Gundl.) ; Jamaica (Gosse) ; S. Croix (Neivton) ; Trinidad (Leotaud) ; Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Guatemala (Salvin) ; coast of Cayenne (Buffon); coast of Brazil (Max. et Natt.) ; Rio Parana (Azara) ; coast of Peru (Tsch.). Of this Tern Salvin has many specimens from the Guatemalan coast, which have been compared by Mr. Coues with types of S. regia oi Gambel. W e have also a series of skins of the same bird * Boie, Isis, 1849, p. 189,= Larosterna. Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. Calcutta. p. 293 (1849),= Inca, Jardine, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 32. |