A Reference List of the Birds of Neiv Zealand. 417 



Synonyms : — 



Sula plioniyula Pelzeln, Ibis, 1873, p. 52 : New Zealand. 



Sula serrutor Biiller, Suppl, vol. ii. p. 46. [The type-locality of 



Sula bassana Linne, Syst. Nat. lOth ed. 1758, p. Vdo, is 



Scotland.] 



Range : — Nortli Island (breeding) ; South Island. 



Sula dactylatra personata Gould. Masked Gannet. 



Sula personata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1816, 

 p. 21 : !Nortli-eastern Australia. 



Synonyms : — 



6'«/« cya/^o^^A- Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 49. [Tlie tj'pe-locality of 

 Sula dactylatra Lesson, Traite d'Oni. 18;J1, p. 601, is Ascension 

 Island J this name has six years' priority over Sula cijanops 

 Sundrivall, Phys. Sallsk. Tidskr. (Lund) vol. i. 1837, p. :il8, 

 described from the same locality.] 



Range ; — Kermadec Islands (breeding). 



Sula leucogaster plotus (Forsterj. Brown Gannet. 



Pelecanus i^lotus Forster, Descr. Anini, ed. Licht. 18-14, 

 p. 275 : near New Caledonia. 



Synonym : — 



Sula sula BuUer, Siippl. vol. ii. p. 50. [The type-locality of 

 Pelecanus leucogaster Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enliini. 1783, p. 57, 

 is Cayenne, and P. sula Linne, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. 1766, p. 218, 

 proves to be synonymous with P. jnscutor Linne, Syst. Nat. 

 iOth ed. 1758, p. ISL] 



Range : — New Zealand (accidental visitor : one occur- 

 rence, Napier, North Island, July 1888 ; apparently a 

 second. Bay of Islands, Proc. New. Zeal. Inst, for 1910, 

 lull, p. 80j j extralimital. 



Family FllEGATID^. 

 Genus FIIEGATA. 

 Fregata Lacepede, Tableau Oiseaux, 1799, p. 15. 

 Type (by monotypy) : F. aquila (Linne). 



Fregata aquila palmerstoni (Gmelin). Eastern Tropic Bird. 



Felecanus palmcrstuJii Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 573: 

 Puimerstou Island, Pacific Ocean. 



