18 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Subgenus LEPTOPHAETHON Mathews. 



Leptophsethon Mathews, Austral Avian Record, II, Nos. 2-3, Oct. 23, 

 1913, 56. Type, by orig. desig., Phaethon lepturus dorotheae Mathews. 



Phaethon lepturus catesbyi Brandt. Yellow-billed Tropic-bird. [112.] 



Phaethon Catesbyi Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., IV, 

 No. 7, May 10, 1838, col. 98. (No locality mentioned = Bermuda.) 



Range. — Breeds in Bermuda and various of the West Indies and Bahamas, 

 ranging north to 40° N. lat. in the western Atlantic Ocean. Winters from 

 the Bahamas and West Indies south at least to Brazil and Ascension Island. 

 Accidental in Florida (Dry Tortugas, summer 1832; Merritts Island, April 

 21, 1886),i South Carolina (Jocassee, Oconee Co., July 30, 1926),^ New York 

 (Knowlesville, September, 1876),' and off the coast of Nova Scotia (September 

 4, 1870).^ [Closely related races breed on other tropical islands.] 



Subgenus SCAEOPHAETHON Mathews. 



Scseophsethon Mathews, Austral Avian Record, II, Nos. 2-3, Oct. 23, 

 1913, 56. Type, by orig. desig., Phaethon rubricauda westralis Mathews. 



• Phaethon rubricaudus rothschildi (Mathews). Red-tailed Tropic-bird. 

 [113.1.] 



Scseophaethon rubricauda rothschildi Mathews, Birds Australia, IV, Pt. 

 iii, June 23, 1915, 303. (Laysan Island, Niihau [Hawaiian group].) 



Range. — Breeds on Laysan and other islands of the Leeward chain, Hawaii, 

 and ranges over the adjacent ocean. Accidental near Guadalupe Island, Lower 

 California (July 23, 1897).^ [Closely related races breed on other islands in 

 the Pacific and Indian oceans.] 



Suborder PELECANI. Pelicans, Boobies, 

 Gannets, Cormorants, and Darters. 



Superfamily PELECANOIDEA. Pelicans. 



Family PELECANIDAE. Pelicans. 



Genus PELECANUS Linnaeus. 



Pelecanus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 132. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Pelecanus onocrotalus Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



1 Audubon, Orn. Biog., Ill, 1835, 442, and Brewster, Auk, II, 1885, 48. 



2 Wayne and Sherman, Auk, XLIV, 1927, 94. 



3 Coues, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 1880, 63. 

 *Bent, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 121, 1922, 187. 

 5 Anthony, Auk, XV, 1898, 39. 



