ANHINGID-E .— SVhWM. 
Anhinga rufa melanogaster Pennant. 
Anhinga melanogaster Pennant, Ind. Zool, 1769, p. 13, pi. 12 : 
Ceylon. 
Distr. — Malay States, 1 * ; Langkawi Islands. 
Sumatra. 
Borneo. 
Java. 
Family SULIDJ5. 
Genus SULA Brisson. 
Sula dactylatra Less. Masked Gannet. 
jSula dactylatra dactylatra Less. 
Sula dactylatra Lesson, Traite d'Grn. 1S31, p. 601 : Ascension 
Island, Atlantic Ocean. 
Distr.— Extra-limital.] • 
Sula dactylatra bedouti Math.* 
Sula dactylatra bedouti Mathews, Austr. Av. Rec., i, 1913, p. 
189 : Bedout Island, South-west Australia. 
Distr. — Coast of Sarawak. 
Java. 
Christinas Island, Indian Ocean. 
Sula abbotti Rldgw. Abbott's Gannet, 
Sula abbotti Ridgway, Proc. U.S, Nat. Mus, xvi, 1893, p. 599 : 
Assumption Island, Indian Ocean. 
Distr . — Christmas Island; Cocos-Keelmg Islands. 
Sula leucogaster (BoddJ, 3 Booby or Brown Gannet. 
[Sula leucogaster leucogaster (Bodd.). 
Pelecanus Leucogaster Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783, p. 57: 
Cayenne. 
Distr. — Extra-limital.] 
1 Almost certain to occur in Peninsular Siam, 
3 Little is known of the distribution of S. dactylatra in Malaysia. Records 
from Java and Sumatra may lefer to 5 . abbotti . Christmas Island is here 
included because Mathews (1927) specifically extends the range of his 
S. d. bedouti to that island whence we have only seen S . abbotti. A form of 
the species identified by Bangs as S. d. for sonata breeds in the Sulu Sea : 
some authors suggest that bedouti is inseparable from fersonata. The only 
specimens we have seen from Malaysia are from the coast of Sarawak, 
3 Cf. Rob. and Kinn., Bull. B. 0 . C. xlviii, 1928, p. 63. 
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