436 STTLID^. 



brown, streaked with white, each of the narrow pointed feathers 

 having the basal two-thirds brown and the middle and terminal 

 portion pure white ; anterior part of the forehead and feathered part 

 of the throat, behind the gular sac, nearly uniform white ; base of 

 the hind-neck, a band across the lower back, upper tail-coverts, base 

 of fore-neck, rest of underparts, axillaries and innermost under 

 wing-coverts white ; rest of back and wings brown, each of the 

 feathers of the back and scapulars shading into whitish at the 

 extremity ; primary-quills brownish black ; secondaries brown like 

 the wing-coverts ; middle pair of tail-feathers white, shading into 

 brown on the terminal portions of the outer webs ; outer pairs 

 mostly brown, more or less white along the basal half of the shaft. 

 Tail composed of 16 feathers. Iris yellow; bill dull olive-blue; 

 bare space round bill, eyes, lores, and gular sac slate-blue ; legs, 

 feet, and webs bright clear ultramarine-blue, with a slight greenish 

 tint on webs (N. S. Goss). 



Adult male. Total length about 34 inches, culmen from feathers 

 on forehead 4-25, wing 16-1, tail 8-5, tarsus 1-9. 



AduU female. Total length about 34 inches, culmen from feathers 

 on forehead 4-5, wing 17'3, tail (imperfect) 7"6, tarsus 2*2. 



Hah. Pacific coast of America, from the Gulf of California to the 

 coast of Chili, and Galapagos Is. 



a,b. c? 2 ad. sk. Tres Marias Is., W. Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 April 10 {A. Fon-er). 



c. Ad. sk. Charles I., Galapagos, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Admiral A. H. Markham). 



d. Ad. sk. Coast of Chili. C.Crawley, Esq. [P.]. 



8. Sula sula. 



Booby, Catesb. Car. i. p. 87, pi. 87 (1731) ; Lath. Gen. Hist. B. x. 



p. 4.39 (1824). 

 Le Fou, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 495 (1760). 

 Pelecanus sula, Linn. S. N. i. p. 218 (1766) ; Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. 



p. 578 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 892 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tabl. 



Encijcl. Meth. i. p. 47, pi. 15. fig. 3 (1790) ; Raff. Tr. Linn. Soc. 



xiii. p. 330 (1822) [Sumatra]. 

 Le Fou de Cayenne, B'Auhent. PI. Enl. ix. pi. 75 [no. 973]. 

 Le Fou commuD, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. ]). 368. pi. xxix. (1781). 

 Le petit Fou, ^»^. Hi.4. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 374 (1781). 

 Pelecanus leuco^^astra, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Erd. p. 57 (1783). 

 Common Booby, Lath. Gen. Syn. ill. pt. ii. p. 612 (1785). 

 Lesser Booby, Lath. Gen. Syn. ill. pt. ii. p. 614 (1785) ; id. Gen. Hist. 



B. X. p. 442 (1824). 

 Pelecanus parvus, G7nel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 579 (1788) ; Lath. Lnd. 



Om. ii.p. 893 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tabl. Encyl. Meth. i. p. 48 (1790). 

 Sula parva, Zrtf«/i. ii-Daudin,in Buff. Hist. Nut. (18nio,Didot), Qnadr. 



xiv. p. 318, Ois. xvi. p. 300 (1799) ; Steph. in Shaic's Gen. Zool. 



xiii. pt. i. p. 107 (1826) ; Jouan, Mem. Soc. Cherbourg, ix. p. 240 



(1863) [New Caledonia]; Hime, Str. F. v. p. 321 (1877). 

 Morus sula, Vieill. N. Diet. dHist. Nut. xii. p. 38 (1817). 

 Moras parvus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 41 (1817). 

 Sula brasiliensis, Sj)ix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 83, pi. cvii. (1825) [Islands 



ofi' Rio]. 



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