ORDER PELECANIFORMES. 21 



• Sula leucogaster leucogaster (Boddaert). "White-bellied Booby. [115.] 



Pelecanus leucogaster Boddaert, Table PI. Enl., 1783, 57. Based on Le 

 Fou de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. Enl., 973. (No locality mentioned 

 = Cayenne.) 



Range. — Breeds on the Bahamas, some of the West Indies and islands off 

 the coasts of Venezuela, Central America, and Brazil, and Ascension Island. 

 Winters throughout its breeding range and perhaps farther south. Casual 

 in Louisiana (below New Orleans, September, 1884) i and Florida and acci- 

 dental in New York (Moriches Bay, Long Island) ,2 Massachusetts (Cape Cod, 

 Sept. 17, 1878),' South Carolina,^ and Bermuda. [Additional races occur in 

 Australia and New Caledonia.] 



Sula brewsteri Goss. Brewster's Booby. [115.1.] 



Sula brewsteri Goss, Auk, V, No. 3, July, 1888, 242. (San Pedro Martir 

 Isle [Gulf of California].) 



Range. — Coasts and islands of the eastern Pacific from Lower California 

 south to the Galapagos; breeding as far north as Consag Rock at the head 

 of the Gulf of California. 



• Sula piscator (Linnaeus). Red-footed Booby. [116.] 



Pelecanus Piscator Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 134. (in India 

 utraque, Europa = China Sea.) 



Range. — 'Breeds on some of the West Indies, on islands off the coasts of 

 Venezuela and British Honduras, and on Ascension Island; also on islands in 

 the Pacific and Indian oceans. Accidental in Florida (Micco, February 16 

 1895).^ 



Genus MORIS Leach. 



Moris Leach, Syst. Catal. Spec. Indig. Mam. and Birds Brit. Mus., 

 1816 [after Aug.], 35. Type, by monotypy, Moris bassana Leach = 

 Pelecanus bassanus Linnaeus. 



Moris bassana (Linnaeus). Gannet. [117.] 



Pelecanus Bassanus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 133. (in 

 Scotia, America = Bass Rock, Scotland.) 



Range. — Breeds on Bird Rock, Bonaventure and Anticosti islands in the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, and on islets off southeastern Newfoundland (formerly in 



1 Beyer, Proc. Louisiana Soc. Naturalists, 1897-99, 87. 



2 Butcher, Auk, X, 1893, 270. 



3 Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XX, 277. 



* Wayne, Birds South Carolina, 1910, 10. Specimens in the Charleston 

 Museum. 



6 Bangs, Auk, XIX, 1902, 395. 



