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ORDER STEGANOPODES. ‘TortipaLMATE 
SWIMMERS. 
Famity PHAETHONTIDZAl. Tropic Brreps. 
Genus PHAETHON Linneus. 
Phaéthon Linn. 8. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 134. Type, P. ethereus 
LINN. 
112. Phaeéthon flavirostris Branpr. 
Yellow-billed Tropic Bird. 
Phaéthon flavirostris BRANDT, Bull. Ac. St. Pétersb. II. 1837, 349. 
[B 629, C 538, R 654, C 763.] 
Groc. Dist.— West Indies and Atlantic coast of Central America, 
north to Florida and Bermuda; accidental in western New York. 
South Pacific and Indian Oceans. 
113. Phaéthon czthereus Linn. 
Red-billed Tropic Bird. 
Phaéthon ethereus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 134. 
[Bi—, C —, R 655, C 762.) 
Geroc. Dist.— Coasts of tropical America, north on the Pacific 
coast to Cape Colnett, Lower California; accidental on the New- 
foundland Banks. Breeds on San Pedro Martir and other islands 
in the Gulf of California. 
Famity SULIDAG. GaAnnets. 
Genus SULA Brisson, 
SuBGENUsS SULA. 
Sula Briss. Orn. VI. 1760,495. Type, by elimination, Pelecanus 
sula LINN. 
