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America. 
outer and middle toes only descends to 
the last joint, instead of to the claws. 
Its range is similar to 8. fuliginosa. 
Anous stolidus.* Linn. (Noddy.) 
Texas and Florida. (Baird, Cassin, and 
Lawrence. ) 
From the Gulf coast of North America 
to Australia, and throughout Poly- 
nesia. (Howard Saunders.) 
The coast of Sentral and Southern 
America. (Sclater and Salvin.) 
Europe. 
African coast, but rarer in Asia. 
Tolerably common, and generally dis- 
tibuted, in the Australian seas. It is 
found in the Red Sea, on the east 
coast of Africa, the Gold Coast, in 
quantities on Ascension Island, and 
occurs at St. Helena. 
Anous stolidus. 
Said to have been taken on the French 
coast. (Degland and Gerbe, Vol. IL., 
p. 445.) 
Two between Dub'in and Wexford. 
(Thompson, Nat. Hist. Irl. Birds, Vol. 
IIT., p. 308.) 
One, co. Dublin. 
1866, p. 306.) 
(Blake, Knox, Zool., 
PHAETONTID#. 
Phaéton ethereus. Linn. 
T noticed this bird off the banks of New- 
foundland in the end of August, 1876. 
Phaéton ethereus. Linn. (Red-billed 
Tropic- bird. ) 
Its habitat is within the tropics; it is 
very accidental in European seas. 
One is said to have been seen off the 
coast of Norway. (Degland and Gerbe, 
Vol. IL., p. 363.) 
PELECANID. 
Sula bassana.* Linn. 
The Atlantic coast from Labrador to the 
Gulf of Mexico. (Baird, Cassin, and 
Lawrence.) 
Accidental and 
(Newton.) 
rare in Greenland. 
Phalacrocorax carbo.* (.) Leach. 
Labrador, and along the east coast to New 
Jersey in winter. (Baird, Cassin, and 
Lawrence. ) 
In Greenland; breeds from Godthaab 
Fjord northward. (Holbill.) 
Found also on the East coast. (Newton.) 
Sula bassana.* Linn. (Gannet.) 
British Isles ; in the Baltic as far as the 
Gulf of Bothnia; on the west coast 
of Norway; Faroes and Iceland. 
Madeira; South Africa. (Yarrell.) 
Phalacrocorax carbo.*  (.) Leach. 
(Cormorant. ) 
Throughout Europe and Asia in suitable 
localities; British Isles to the Medi- 
terranean, Black, and Caspian Seas. 
Asia Minor ; Siberia ; Northern India ; 
Southern Persia; throughout China. 
South Africa. Australia. New 
Zealand, (Dresser.) 
