ORDER 



ORDER STEGANOPODES. TOTIPALMATE 

 SWIMMERS. 



FAMILY PHAETHONTID2E. TROPIC BIRDS. 



GENUS PHAETHON LINN^US. 



Phaethon LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 134. Type, P. (zthereus 

 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 asthereus LINN. 



Red-billed Tropic Bird. 



Phaethon (zthereus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 134. 



[B C R6 55 , C 7 6 2 .] 



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 STJLIDJE. GANNETS. 



GENUS SULA BRISSON. 



SUBGEXUS SULA. 



Sula BRISS. Orn. VI. 1760,495. Type, by elimination, Pelecanus 

 sula LINN. 



