Order PELECANIF0RME8 
No. 280. 
Family SULID^, 
PISCATRIX SULA RUBRIPES. 
AUSTKALIAN RED-LEGGED GANNET. 
(Plate 225.)* 
SuLA RTTBREPES Gould, Sjnops. Biids Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 7, 1838 ; New South 
Wales (errore) = Raine Island, Queensland. 
Sula ruhripes Gould, Synops. BirdB Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 7, 1838 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Bond.) 1837, p. 156, 1838 ; Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. iii., p. 183, 1844 ; 
Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 144, 1913. 
Sula piscator Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 79, 1846 ; Reichenbach, Synops. Av. 
Natat., pi. 53, fig. 853, 1850 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 509, 1865 ; 
Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. ni., p. 126, 1871 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 203, 1878; Sclater and Salvin, Zool. Chall. Rep., Vol. II., p. 120; 
Layard, Ibis 1880, p. 233 ; id., ib., 1881, p. 134 ; Salvador!, Om. Papua e. Moll., 
Vol. III., p. 419, 1882 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 24, 1888 ; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 432, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 102, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 987, 1901 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 102, 1906. 
Piscatrix Candida Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. vi., 1852 (part) ; Bonaparte, 
Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 166, 1856. 
Sula piscatrix Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 38, 1908 ; Macgilfivray, Emu, Vol. X., 
p. 224, pi. xxviii., 1910 ; id., ib., Vol. XIII., p. 148, 1914 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 347, 1912. 
Sula piscator piscator Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 242, 1912. 
Sula piscator rubripes Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 98, 1913. 
Distribution. — Queensland. Extra-limital. 
Adult female. General colour above and below white tinged with buff ; greater upper 
wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills hoary grey, inner webs of 
quills paler and becoming white towards the base on the secondaries ; under 
wing-coverts white with the exception of the median and greater series which are 
for the most part grey. “ Bill greyish-black shading to pink at base ; naked 
skin roimd the eye blue ; gular pouch black ; line across the fore-head and running 
along the line of the upper mandible to the gape pink ; eye grey and white ; feet 
rose colour ” (Macgilfivray). Total length 710 mm. ; culmen 83, wing 392, tail 
230, tarsus 40. 
* The Plate is lettered Svla rubripes. 
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