Order PELECANIF0RME8 
No. 283. 
Family 8ULIDM. 
SULA LEUCOGASTER PLOTUS. 
AUSTRALIAN BROWN GANNET (BOOBY). 
(Plate 228.)* 
Pelecantjs PLOTUS Forster, Descr. Anim., ed. Licht., p. 278, 1844; near New Caledonia. 
Pelecanus plotus Forster, Descr. Anim., ed. Licht., p. 278, 1844. 
8ula fusca (not Vieillot) Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 78, 1846 ; Reichenbach, Synops. 
Natatores, pi. xxix., fig. 850; pi. 55, figs. 2296-7, 1850; Macgillivray, Narr. Voy. 
“ Rattlesnake,” Vol. II., App., p. 359, 1852; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. IV., p. 84, 1879 ; Finsch, Ibis 1881, p. 540 ; Tristram, Ibis 1882, p. 144 ; 
Hamilton, Trans, New Zeal. Inst., Vol. XXI., p. 128, 1889 ; Macgillivray, Emu, 
Vol. XIII., p. 148, 1914. 
Dysporus sula Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 164, 1856 (part). 
Sula fiber (not Linne) Gray, Ibis 1862, p. 250 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II,, 
p. 507, 1865 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. m., p. 126, 1871 (part) ; Masters, 
Proc, Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 64, 1876 ; Ramsay, ih., p. 386, 1877 ; id., ib., 
Vol. II., p. 203, 1878 ; (?) Walker, Ibis 1892, p. 257. 
8ula leucogastra (not Boddaert) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1878, p. 651 ; 
Salvadori, Orn. Papua, e Moll., Vol. Ill,, p. 421, 1882; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p, 24, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p, 364, 1890. 
Sula sula Ogilvie-Grant (not Linne), Cat, Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 436, 1898 (part) ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 102, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 988, 1901 ; Tunny, Emu, Vol. I., p. 73, pi. n., 1902; Hartert, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XII., p. 206, 1905; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 102, 1906; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. Ill,, p. 350, 1912. ^ 
Siila leucogaster Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral,, p. 38, 1908 ; Campbell and White, 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 203, 1910 ; Macgillivray, ib., pp. 219, 224, pis. xxvi., xxvii., 
1910 ; Broadbent, ib., p. 245, 1910 ; Hill, ib., p. 265, 1911 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 242, 1912. 
Sula leucogaster rogersi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 189, 1913 ; Bedout Island, 
Mid-west Australia. 
Sula leucogaster leucogaster Mathews, ib. 
Hemisula leucogaster plotus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 99, 1913. 
Hemisula leucogaster rogersi Mathews, ib. 
* The Plate is lettered Svla leucogaster. 
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