ORDER PELECANIFORMES. 17 



Genus PELAGODROMA Reichenbach. 



Pelagodroma Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat., 1852 [1853], iv. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Procellaria marina Latham. 



• Pelagodroma marina hypoleuca (Webb, Berthelot, and Moquin-Tan- 

 don). White-faced Petrel. [HI.] 



Thalassidroma hypoleuca Webb, Berthelot, and Moquin-Tandon, Orn. 

 Canarienne, 1841, 45. (Les parages de Teneriffe [Canary Islands].) 



Range. — North Atlantic Ocean; breeds on the Salvage and Cape Verde 

 islands. The only North American record is 400 miles off the coast of New 

 Jersey (lat. 40° 34' 18" N.; long. 66° 09' W.), September 2, 1885.i [Allied races 

 occur in the southern oceans.] 



Order PELECANIFORMES. Totipalmate 

 Swimmers. 



Suborder PHAETHONTES. Tropic-birds. 

 Family PHAETHONTIDAE. Tropic-birds. 



Genus PHAETHON Linnaeus. 



Phaethon Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 134. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Phaethon aetherevs Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Subgenus PHAETHON Linnaeus. 



Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus. Red-billed Tropic-bird. [113.] 



Phaethon sethereus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 134. Based 

 mainly on Osbeck, Dogbok ofver en Ostindisk resa S,ren 1750-1752 

 291. (in Pelago inter tropicos = Ascension Island, South Atlantic.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Lesser Antilles and coastal islands of Venezuela 

 and Brazil, Ascension Island, the Cape Verde Islands, and from islands 

 in the Gulf of California south to the coast of Ecuador. Winters from 

 its breeding range southward to Chile. Casual in Jamaica, Bermuda 

 (April, 1901), the Pacific coasts of Lower California and southern California; 

 accidental on the Newfoundland Banks (August, 1876), ^ and in Arizona 

 (Phoenix, April, 1905).3 



1 Ridgway, Auk, II, 1885, 386. 



2 Freke, Proc. Roy. Soc. Dublin, 1879, 416. 



3 Breninger, Auk, XXII, 1905, 408; and Miller, Auk, XXVII, 1910, 450. 



