ORDER STEGANOPODES. 39 



Order STEGANOPODES. Totipalmate 

 Swimmers. 



Family PHAETHONTID.a3. Tropic Birds. 



Genus FHAETHON Linn^us. 



Phaethon Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 134. Type, P. athereus 

 Linn. 



112. Fhaethon flavirostris Brandt. 



Yellow-billed Tropic Bird. 



Phaethon flavirostris Brandt, Bull. Ac. St. P^tersb. 11. 1837, 349. 

 [B 629, C 538, R 654, C 763.J 

 Geog. Dist. — West Indies and Atlantic coast of Central America, 

 north to Florida and Bermuda; accidental in western New York. 

 South Pacific and Indian Oceans. 



113. Phaethon sethereus Linn. 



Red-billed Tropic Bird. 



Phaethon cethereus Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 134. 

 [B-, C— , R6ss, C762.J 

 Geog. Dist. — Coasts of tropical America, north on the Pacific 

 coast to Cape Colnett, Lower California; accidental on the New- 

 foundland Banks. Breeds on San Pedro Martir and other islands 

 in the Gulf of California. 



Family SULID.9i. Gannets. 



Genus SULA Brisson. 



Subgenus SULA. 



Sula Briss. Orn. VI. 1760,495. Type, by elimination, T'lf/iffa^wj- 

 sula Linn. 



