Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 2 7 "Z 



Sp. Char. — Large. General color white ; remiges and greater wing-coverts 

 dark brown ; middle rectrices hoary white, tipped with brown ; rest 

 of tail dark brown, white at the base ; feet reddish .•* gular sac bluish. 

 Wing, 16.00; tail, 7.70; bill, 3.90; tarsus, 1.S5. 



Habitat. West Indies, Bahamas, breeding {Bryant). 



Sula sula (Linn.). 



Pelecanus sula Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, I, p. 218(1766). 



Pelecanus leticogastra Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 57 (17S3). 



Sula fiisca D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 306 (1S40). — 

 GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 417 (1847). — Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, P- 237 (San 

 Domingo).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (i860) 

 (Cuba). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 207 (Jamaica); tb. Gundl. 

 p. 95 (Cuba).— Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 97 (1867) 

 (San Domingo). 



Sula Jibe r GossK, Bds. Jam. p. 417 (1847). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. VII, p. 123 (1859) (Bahamas). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 

 207 (Jamaica). — Lawr. Ann. Ljc. N. Y. VIII, p. loi (1867) (Som- 

 brero); Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. T96 (1878) (St. Vincent);/^. 

 p. 274 (Grenada).— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 169 (1880) 

 (Santa Lucia). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 191 (1S80). — Wells, 

 List. Bds. Grenada, p. 11 (1SS6). 



Dysforus sula A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1S59, P- 3^9 (St- Croix). 



Dyspoi'HS fiber Gu^-Di^. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 395 (1S66) ; ib. 

 J. f. O. 1874, p. 314 (Porto Rico) ; ib. 1875, p. 402 (Cuba) ; ib. Anal. 

 Soc Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 41S (1878) (Porto Rico). 



Dysporus leucogaster Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1S69, p. 591 (St. 

 Bartholomew). 



Sula Icucogastra A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 112 (1881). — 

 Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 171 (1885) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. 

 p. 32 (1885). 



Sula sula RiDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, p. 356 (1SS5). 



Sp. Char. Adult: — Head, throat, upper part of breast, and entire upper 

 plumage dark olive brown ; underparts white ; gular sac pale yel- 

 low; upper mandible greenish; feet pale yellowish green ; iris yel- 

 lowish. 

 Length, 27.00; wing, 15.50; tail, 8.00; tarsus, 1.60; bill, 4.00. 



Habitat. Antilles. 



Sula piscator (Linn.). 



Pelecanus piscator Linn. Syst. Nat. I, loth cd. p. 134 (1758); ib. 12th ed. 

 p. 217 (1766). 



5/</rt/«rz^«.'' Gosse, Bds Jam. p. 219 (1S47). — Wells, List Bds. Grena- 

 da, p. II (18S6). 



