102 Ninth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. \jtt. 



Oceanodroma cryptoleucura Ridgw., Man. N. A. Bds. 1887, 71. 

 [B— , C— R— , C— .] 



Geog. Dist. — Pacific and Southern Oceans ; accidental in the 

 District of .Columbia. (Cf. W. Palmer, Auk, XIV, July, 1897, 

 297.) 



Genus CYMODROMA Ridgway (Check-List, 2d ed., p. 38) . 

 This becomes 



Genus FREG-ETTA Bonap. 



Fregetta Bonap. Comp. Rend. XI,I, 1855, n 13. Type, 

 Thalassidroma tropica Gould = T. melanogaster Gould. 



Name sufficiently distinct from Fregata Briss. {Cf. Coues, 

 Auk, XIV, July, 1897, 315.) Henc'e No. [no] will stand as 



[110.] Fregetta grallaria (Vieill.). 



Procellaria grallaria Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXVI, 



1817, 418. 

 Fregetta grallaria Bonap. Consp. Av. II, 1856, 197. 



112. Phaethon flavirostris Brandt. This becomes 

 Phaethon americanus Grant. 



Phaethon americanus Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, No. 

 XLIX, Dec. 1897, p. xxiv; Ibis, April, 1898, 288. 



Geog. Dist. — West Indies and Atlantic coast of Central 

 America, north to Florida and Bermuda ; accidental in western 

 New York. 



Phaethon flavirostris is the Indian Ocean species. 

 [113.1.] Phaethon rubricaudus Bodd. 



Red-tailed Tropic Bird. 



Phaeton rubricaudus Bodd. Tabl. PI. En. 1783, 57. 

 [B_, C-, R-, C— .] 



