ORDER STEGANOPODES. 4! 



[B_, C- R6 53 , C-.] 



GEOG. DIST. Coasts and islands of tropical and subtropical seas, 

 north to western Mexico and Florida. 



SUBGENUS DYSPORUS ILLIGER. 



Dysporus ILLIG. Prodr. 1811, 279. Type, by elimination, Pele- 

 canus bassanus LINN. 



117. Sula bassana (LINN.). 



Gannet. 



Pelecanus bassanus LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 133. 

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



[B 617, 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 ANHINGID.ZE. DARTERS. 



GENUS ANHINGA BRISSON. 



Anhinga BRISSON, Orn. VI. 1760, 476. Type, Anhinga 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. 



