﻿i68 
  

  

  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  eight 
  or 
  more 
  members 
  of 
  this 
  family, 
  om" 
  species 
  being 
  

   common 
  to 
  the 
  holarctic 
  region, 
  the 
  others 
  mostly 
  to 
  the 
  tropical 
  and 
  stib- 
  

   tropical 
  seas. 
  They 
  are 
  all 
  maritime 
  in 
  habitat 
  and 
  gregarious 
  in 
  habits, 
  

   congregating 
  in 
  immense 
  numbers 
  on 
  their 
  breeding 
  grounds. 
  

  

  Sula 
  leucogaster 
  (Boddaert) 
  

  

  Booby 
  

  

  Pelecantis 
  leucogaster 
  Boddaert. 
  Table 
  des 
  Planches 
  Enlumineez. 
  1783. 
  

  

  P- 
  57 
  

   Sula 
  sula 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  115 
  

  

  sil'la, 
  Norse, 
  sula; 
  leucogas'ter, 
  Gr. 
  Acvkos, 
  white, 
  yaorr/p, 
  belly 
  

  

  Description. 
  Dark 
  brown; 
  breast 
  and 
  beUy 
  white; 
  head 
  and 
  neck 
  

   often 
  streaked 
  with 
  white 
  ; 
  bill, 
  lores 
  and 
  feet 
  yellowish 
  ; 
  iris 
  white. 
  Young: 
  

   grayish 
  brown, 
  paler 
  below 
  ; 
  bill 
  dark. 
  

  

  Booby. 
  Sula 
  leucogaster 
  (Boddaert). 
  Prom 
  specimen 
  in 
  .-Xmerican 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History. 
  J 
  nat. 
  size 
  

  

  