18 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Family SULIDAE: Boobies, Gannets 



Genus SULA Brisson 



Sula gossi "Ridgw. (ms.)" Goss 

 Auk 5 (3) : 241, July 1888. 

 =Sula nebouxii Milne-Edwards. See Ridgway, Manual of North Ameri- 

 can birds, ed. 2, p. 584 (footnote 4) , 1896. 



113434. Adult male. San Pedro Martir Island, Gulf of California ("a 

 little north of latitude 28°, and not far from midway between shores") , 

 Mexico. March 24, 1888. Collected by Nathaniel S. Goss. Original 

 number 2. 



113435. Adult female. San Pedro Martir Island, Gulf of California ("a 

 little north of latitude 28°, and not far from midway between shores"), 

 Mexico. March 21, 1888. Collected by Nathaniel S. Goss. 



Sula abbotti Ridgway 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 16: 599, August 16, 1893 (advance sheet). 

 128761. Adult male. Assumption Island, (lat. 9°47' S., long. 46°31' E.), 

 Aldabra Islands, western Indian Ocean north of Madagascar. Septem- 

 ber 18, 1892. Collected by William L. Abbott. 

 [Sula] elegans Bryant 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 7: 125 (not earlier than September) 1859. 

 =Sula daclylatra dactylatra Lesson. See Bangs, Bull, Mus. Comp. Zool. 



70: 184, 1930. 

 11953. Adult (sex not indicated). Santo Domingo Key, "which lies 

 thirty-three miles south of Great Ragged Island," Bahama Islands, 

 eastern Atlantic Ocean off Florida. April 10, 1859. Collected by 

 Henry Bryant. 

 Bangs {loc. cit.) has listed Nos. 42939, 42940, and 42941 in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology as other cotypes. 

 Sula coiyi Maynard 



Ornithologist and Oologist 14: 40, March 1889 (from advance sheets 

 of Contributions to Science). 

 =Sula sula sula (Linnaeus). See Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 70: 185, 

 1930. 



116847. Adult male. Little Cayman Island, Caribbean Sea. May 2, 

 1888. Collected by Charles J. Maynard. 



116848. Subadult female. Same data as No. 116847. 



116849. Subadult male. Same data as No. 116847. 



116850. Immature male. Same data as No. 116847. 



The four specimens here listed were obtained from Maynard by purchase 

 and entered into the museum register on July 29, 1889. Bangs (loc. cit.) 

 has listed four more cotypes in the collection of tlie Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology. 



Bangs cites as the original description Maynard's Contributions to Science 

 1:40, "Apr." 1889. Richmond (ms.) states that "the Contrib. to Science 



