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the so-called female in Osbeck's description and to Brisson's 

 Sula Candida, which is also undoubtedly the same species. 



'' With regard to Linnaeus^ Pelecanus sula, it does not 

 seem possible to identify it with the Brown Booby, as the 

 face and legs are described as red. And although there is 

 a reference to Brisson^s ' Sula sula,' one must go by the 

 diagnosis and not by the reference, and this name must be 

 regarded as a doubtful synonym of Sula piscator. 



"The next available name for the Brown Booby appears 

 to be Boddaert's Pelecanus leucogaster (PL Enl. 1783, p. 57, 

 no. 973), as was first pointed out by Nelson (Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Washington, xviii. 1905, p. 121). This name is 

 founded on Buffon's Petit Fou (Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. 1781, 

 p. 374), and is figured as the ^Fou de Cayenne^ in the 

 ' Planches enluminees.' 



"The type, therefore, of the genus Sula is, Sula leucogastra 

 (Bodd.).^' 



Mr. W. L. ScLATER exhibited engravings of the following 

 celebrated naturalists which had been the property of his 

 father : — 



Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, Prince of 

 Canino and Musignano, was born in Paris in 1803. He was 

 the eldest son of Lucien Bonaparte, a younger brother of 

 Napoleon Bonaparte. Lucien, except for a visit to the United 

 States, lived the greater part of his life in Italy, where he 

 was created Prince of Canino. He was never a reigning 

 sovereign like most of his brothers, owing to his democratic 

 views and disagreements with his brother. Charles Lucien 

 married at Brussels, in 1823, his cousin Zenaide, daughter 

 of Joseph Bonaparte, and shortly afterwards emigrated to 

 America, where his father-in-law was living in exile. He 

 settled near Philadelphia and devoted himself to ornithology. 

 He published here his edition of Wilson^s ' American Orni- 

 thology.' About 1840, after his father's death and his 

 succession to the title, he returned to Europe and settled in 

 Paris, where he lived the rest of his life. 



