ORDER STEGANOPODES. AX 
eM oe TT eae 
Groc. Dist.— Coasts and islands of tropical and subtropical seas, 
north to western Mexico and Florida. 
SusBGENUS DYSPORUS ILLIGER. 
Dysporus I.1c. Prodr. 1811, 279. Type, by elimination, Pe/e- 
canus bassanus LINN. 
117. Sula bassana (Linv.). 
Gannet. 
Pelecanus bassanus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 133. 
Sula bassana Bok, Isis, 1822, p. 563. 
[B 617, C 524, R 650, C 746.] 
Geroc. Dist.— Coasts of the North Atlantic, south in winter to 
the Gulf of Mexico and Africa; breeds from Nova Scotia and the 
British Islands northward. 
Famity ANHINGIDZA. DartTers. 
Genus ANHINGA Brisson. 
Anhinga Brisson, Orn. VI. 1760, 476. Type, Anhinga Marcecr. 
= Plotus anhinga LINN. 
118. Anhinga anhinga (Liny.). 
Anhinga. 
Plotus anhinga Linn. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 218. 
Anhinga anhinga STEN. Stand. Nat. Hist. IV. 1885, 193. 
[B 628, C 536, R 649, C 760.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Tropical and subtropical America, north in the 
United States to the Carolinas, the mouth of the Ohio River, and 
southern Kansas. 
