236 GENERA AND SPECIES OE BXBDS. 



Family HI. PLOTIDiE. 



(Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 410, 1898.) 



I. PLOTTJS, Linn. 



(Ogilvie Grant, t. c. p. 410.) 



1. rufus, Baud. (p. 412.) X. Syria 



(Lake of Antioch). 

 Tropical Africa. 

 Madagascar. 



2. melanogaster (Gm.). (p. 414.) Mesopotamia, 



Indian Peninsula, 

 Indo-Chinese countries, 

 Indo-Malayan Peninsula, 

 Borneo, 

 Philippine Is., 

 Celebes. 



3. novae-hollandias, Gould, (p. 417.), Australia. 



New Zealand. 

 SJE. New Guinea. 



4. anhinga (Linn.), (p. 419.) Tropical N. America. 



C. & S. America. 



5. nanus, R Ketol. ^- Gadow, Tr. Z. S. siii. p. 288 Mauritius (Pleistocene). 



(1893). 



6. jparbus. De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N . S. W. iii. Queensland 



p. 1286 (1888). (Post-Tertiary). 



Family IV. SULIRffi. 

 (Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 423.) 



I. SULA, Briss. 



(Ogilvie Grant, *. e. p. 423.) 



1. bassana (Zrara.). (p. 425.) N.Atlantic. 



Gulf of Mexico (winter). 

 N. Africa (winter). 

 Canary Is. {winter). 



2. serrator, Gray. (p. 428.) Australia. 



New Zealand. 



3. capensis (Licht.). (p. 429.) S. Africa to Zanzibar and 



Lower Congo. 



