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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^ dorsi medio alis rectricibusque 



duabus intermediis Jusco-nigrls, 

 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. 



