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465 mm is of the typical AVest Indian race. Others were recorded 

 at Anse a Galets on Gonave Island, March 22, and at lie a Vache 

 April 28. At the latter locality a female was prepared as a skeleton 

 on May 6. 



PELECANUS OCCIDENTALIS CAROLINENSIS Gmelin 



Northern Brown Pexican 



Peleccmus carolinensis Gmeolin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 571 (Cliarles- 

 ton Harbor, S. 0.). 



A female, secured on March 7 at Cayo Grande de Moa, is an adult 

 bird in postbreeding plumage. This specimen has a wing measure- 

 ment of 495 mm and is a representative of the northern race found 

 along the coasts of the Soutlieastern United States, which is dis- 

 tinguished from the West Indian bird by larger size. It seems 

 probable that the Moa specimen comes from the north as a wan- 

 derer, but its capture suggests the possibility that the resident pelican 

 of the northern coast of Cuba may not be the typical West Indian 

 form, but instead may be the same as the breeding bird of Florida. 

 The writer and Dr. Kobert Cushman Murphy arrived independently 

 at belief in the distinctness of this form, which has been recognized 

 also by J. L. Peters.^ 



The name here used seems to be the earliest that has been applied 

 to the brown pelican of the United States. Pelecanus alhicollis 

 C. J. Maynard, described * from Cedar Keys, Fla., is a synonym. 



Family SULIDAE, Gannets and Boobies 



SULA PISCATOR (Linnaeus) 



Red-footed Booby 



Pelecanus Piscator Linnaexjs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 134 (Java Sea). 



Six specimens of this booby were taken from the hundreds seen 

 on Navassa Island on May 10, 1930. The skins prepared include one 

 young bird in downy plumage with wing and tail feathers partly 

 grown. Two of the specimens are in gray plumage with white tails, 

 and one is in full adult white dress. The breeding colony here ap- 

 pears to be extensive, as the collectors speak of hundreds of birds 

 seen. 



= Check list of birds of the world, vol. 1, 1931, p. 81. 

 * Amer. Sportsman, vol. 3, no. 24, Mar. 14, 1874, p. 379. 



