ORDER STEGANOPODES. 



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Order STEGANOPODES. Totipalmate 

 Swimmers. 



Family PHAETHONTID^. Tropic Birds. 



Genus PHAETHON Linn^us. 



Fhaethon Linn. S. N. ed. lo, I. 1758, 134. Type, P. cethereus 



Linn. 



112. Phaethon flavirostris Brandt. 



Yellow-billed Tropic Bird. 



Phaethon flavirostris Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. II. 1837, 349- 

 [B 629, C 538, R 654, C 763.] 

 Geog. 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. Phaethon aethereus Linn. 



Red-billed Tropic Bird. 



Phaethon (Ethereus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 134. 

 [B- C— , R655, C762.] 

 Geog. 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. 



Family SULID^. Gannets. 



Genus SULA Brisson. 



Subgenus SULA. 



Sula Briss. Orn. VI. 1760,495. Type, by elimination, /V/(?<:«7?^^j 

 sula Linn. 



