26 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



STEGANOPODES. 



SULIDAE. 



50. Sula leucogastra (Boddaert) Sclater & Salvin. 



Booby; Booby gannet. 



Pelecanus leucogaster Bockl., Tabl. d. planch, enlum. d'hist. 

 nat., 1783, p. 57. Based on Bnft'on. 



Sula fusea 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 

 (nee 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- bassanus 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., X. H. — Uncommon migrant. April— May; Sept.-Oct. 9. 



Mass. — Common migrant offshore. Mar. 26-June 7; Aug. 3- 

 Dec. 21. 



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

 Oct. 26. 



Conn. — Rare migrant offshore. 



