ORDER STEGANOPODES. 4 1 



[B— C- R653, C— .] 



Geog. Dist. — Coasts and islands of tropical and subtropical seas, 

 north to western Mexico and Florida. 



Subgenus DYSPORUS Illiger. 



Dysporus Illig. Prodr. 181 1, 279. Type, by elimination, Pele- 

 canus bassanus Linn. 



117. Sula bassana (Linn.). 



Gannet. 



Felecanus bassanus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 133. 

 Sula bassana Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 563. 



[B617, C 524, R 650, C 746.] • 



Geog. 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. 



Family ANHINGIDJS]. Darters. 



Genus ANHINGA Brisson. 



Anhinga Brisson, Orn. VI. 1760, 476. Type, ^«>^m^^ Marcgr. 

 = Plotus anhinga Linn. 



118. Anhinga anhinga (Linn.). 



Anhinga. 



Plotus anhinga Linn. S. N. ed. 12, I. 1766, 218. 

 Anhinga anhinga Stejn. Stand. Nat. Hist. IV. 1885, 193. 



[B 628, C 536, R 649, C 760.] 



Geog. Dist. — Tropical and subtropical America, north in the 

 United States to the Carolinas, the mouth of the Ohio River, and 

 southern Kansas. 



