20 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds on islands off the Pacific coast from Monterey County, 

 California, to the Tres Marias Islands, Mexico. Winters from British Colum- 

 bia (rarely) to California and the west coast of Mexico and central America. 

 Casual inland to central California and Arizona. 



SupERFAMiLY SULOIDEA. Boobies, Gannets, Cormorants, 



AND Darters. 



Family SULIDAE. Boobies and Gannets. 



Genus SULA Brisson. » 



Sula Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 60; VI, 494. Type, by tautonymy, Sula 

 Brisson = Pelecanus piscator Linnaeus. 



• Sula dactylatra dactylatra Lesson. Atlantic Blue-faced Booby. [114.] 



Sula dactylatra Lesson, Traite d'Orn., Livr. 8, June 11, 1831, 601. (L'ile 

 de I'Ascension = Ascension Island, South Atlantic.) 



Range. — Breeds on some of the Lesser Antilles and islands off the coasts of 

 Venezuela, Colombia, and Yucatan (formerlj'- on the Bahamas). Accidental 

 in southern Florida (Gulf Stream off Palm Beach Co.),^ Louisiana (Avery 

 Island, August, 1915), ^ and Texas (Rockport).^ 



Sula dactylatra califomica Rothschild. Pacific Blue-faced Booby. [114a.] 



Sula dactylatra califomica Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XXXV, 

 No. cciii, Jan. 27, 1915, 43. (San Benedicto Island [Revillagigedo 

 Group, western Mexico].) 



Range. — Western coast of Mexico, north casually to Los Alijos Rocks, 

 Lower California. 



Sula nebouxi Milne-Edwards. Blue-footed Booby. [114.1.] 



Sida Nebouxn Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.), ser. 6, XIII, 1882, 

 Art. 4, 37 (pi. xiv). (la cote pacifique de I'Amerique = Chile.) 



Range. — Breeds on islands in the Gulf of California south to the Gald- 

 pagos Islands and coast of northern Peru, ranging in winter to Chile. Wan- 

 ders to the Pacific side of the peninsula of Lower California, at the San Benito 

 Islands. 



1 Bailey, Birds of Florida, 1925, 14. 



2 Bent, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 121, 1922, 196. 

 'Collection U. S. Nat. Mus. 



