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[GENUS PELAGODROMA REICHENBACH. 



Pelagodroma REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852, iv. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Procellaria marina LATHAM. 



Pelagodroma marina (LATHAM). White-faced Petrel. [111.] 



Procellaria marina LATHAM, Index On., II, 1790, 826. (37 S. lat.) 



RANGE. Southern oceans, north to the Canaries; accidental off 

 Massachusetts and Great Britain.] 



ORDER STEGANOPODES. TOTIPALMATE 

 SWIMMERS. 



FAMILY PHAETHONTIDJE. TROPIC-BIRDS. 

 GENUS PHAETHON LINN^US. 



Phaethon LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 134. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Phaethon cethereus LINN^US (Gray, 1840). 



Phaethon americanus GRANT. Yellow-billed Tropic-bird. [112.] 



Phaeton americanus GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, VII, Dec., 1897, xxiv. 

 (Bermuda and the West Indies.) 



RANGE. Florida and Bermuda south to West Indies and Atlantic 

 coast of Central America; accidental in western New York, Nova 

 Scotia, and Arizona. 



Phaethon sethereus LINN.EUS. Red-billed Tropic-bird. [113.] 



Phaethon cethereus LINNJEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 134. (Ascencion 

 Island, South Atlantic.) 



RANGE. Coasts of tropical America. Breeds in Lesser Antilles, 

 and from San Pedro Martir Island, Gulf of California, south to coast 

 of Peru; ranges north to Cape Colnett, Lower California; casual in 

 Greater Antilles; accidental on Newfoundland Banks. 



