10() BROWN AND WHITE BOOBY. 



dusky-ash colour : the rump and tail-coverts are pale 

 grey : the tail is wedge-shaped, and consists of four- 

 teen feathers, of which the two middle ones are ash- 

 colour, and the rest brownish-ash, with grey tips : 

 the legs are red. Inhabits Cayenne, the West India 

 Islands, and the western coast of tropical Africa. 



BROWN AND WHITE BOOBY. 



(Sula leucophea.) 



Su. alba, vertice nuchdque fuscis, dor si medio alts rectricibusauc 



duabus interniediisfusco-nigris. 

 White Gannet with the vertex and nape brown, the middle of 



the back, the wings, and two middle tail-feathers brown-black . 

 Brown and White Booby. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 441. 



Supposed to inhabit Cayenne : its beak is brown : 

 head, neck, and beginning of the back, the rump, 

 breast, and all beneath, pure white : top of the head 

 and nape pale brown : middle of the back, wings, and 

 two middle tail-feathers dusky-brown, nearly black : 

 some of the secondaries margined with white : tail 

 long, cuneiform : the outer feathers white : legs pale 

 yellow-brown. 



