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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



There are eight or more members of this family, our species being 

 common to the holarctic region, the others mostly to the tropical and sub- 

 tropical seas. They are all maritime in habitat and gregarious in habits, 

 congregating in immense numbers on their breeding grounds. 



Sula leucogaster (Boddaert) 

 Booby 



Pelecanus leucogaster Boddaert. Table des Planches Enlumineez. 1783. 



P- 57 

 Sula sula A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. Xo. 115 



sft'la, Norse, sula; Iciicogas'ler, Gr. Xcdkos, white, yaa-Trjp, belly 



Description. Dark brown ; breast and belly white ; head and neck 

 often streaked with white; Ijill, litres and feet yellowish; iris white. Yoitng: 

 grayish brown, paler below; bill dark. 



Booby. Sula leucogaster (Bodrlaert). From specimen in American Museum of Natural History. } nat. size 



