26 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



STEGANOPODES. 



SULIDAE. 



50. SuLA LEUCOGASTRA (Bo(ldaert) Sclater & Salvin. 



Booby; Booby gannet. 



Pelecanus leacogader Bodd., Tabl. d. planch, enlum. d'hist. 

 nat., 1783, p. 57. Based on Buffon. 



Sida fusca Linne. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, vol. 7, p. 

 57, pi. 426. 



Seacoasts; nests on the ground. 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: Cape Cod, about Sept. 17, 1878 

 {7iec Essex Co.). 

 Conn. — Linsley's record (Guilford) said to refer to S. bassana. 



51. SuLA BASSANA (Linne) Boie. 



Gannet; Solan goose; White gannet. 



Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, vol. 7, p. 44, pi. 425. Egg, 

 Seebohm, 1896, p. 69, pi. 19, fig. 4. 



Pelecanus hassanus Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 1, p. 133. 

 "in Scotia, America." 



Coastwise; nests in colonies on a few rocky islets of North 

 Atlantic. 



Me., N. H. — Uncommon migrant. Aj)ril-May; Sept.-Oct. 9. 



Mass. — Common migrant ofi'shorc. ]\Iar. 26-June 7; Aug. 3- 

 Dec. 21. 



R. L — Uncommon migrant offshore. April-May 16; Sept. 10- 

 Oct. 26. 



Conn. — Rare migrant offshore. 



