Blue-gray Tern

_Procelsterna saxatilis_ W. K. Fisher, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 26,

1903, p. 559. (Type locality, Necker Island, Hawaiian Islands.)

_Procelsterna cerulea saxatilis_ Yamashina, Tori, 10, 1940, p. 678

(Bikar); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 219 (Bikar);

Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 27 (Micronesia).

_Geographic range._--Known from Marcus Island and the western

Hawaiian Islands. In Micronesia: Marshall Islands--Bikar.

_Remarks._--Yamashina (1940:678) recorded the taking of eight of these

terns (5 adult males, 3 adult females) on July 10, 1932, at Bikar in the

Marshall Islands. He gives the following measurements: wing, 180.5-188;

tail, 104-113.5; exposed culmen, 24-26.5. This is the only known record

for the species in Micronesia.

=Anous stolidus pileatus= (Scopoli)

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