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LESSER GANNET ? 



(Sula? parva.) 



Su. ? nige)' subtus albus,Jacie phcmosd. 

 Black Gannet ? beneath white^, the face phimose. 

 Pelecanus parvus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 575. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 

 893. 



Le petit Fou de Cayenne. Biiff^. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 374. Buff. 

 PL Enl. 973. 



Lesser Booby. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 614. I^ath. Gen. Hist.xA42, 



This is a very small species, being only eighteen 

 inches in length : its beak is nearly straight : the 

 space round the eye is not bare : the throat, breast, 

 and belly are white : all the remainder of the plu- 

 mage dusky black. Probably a young bird. Inhabits 

 Cayenne. 



