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Show »5 J, 5, 5, ,J ,5 Wing. 20*5 20-5 20*5 20*5 Bill from gape, 3*9 4*0 4*0 4*0 1878.] COLLECTED BY THE 'CHALLENGER.' 651 Fregata minor 3, 133 2,134 $,144 d,482 The bill of F. minor is also narrower at the base, and more 2. PHAETHONTIDiE. 3. P H A E T H O N iETHEREUS, Linn. a, Ascension Island (1876, March). 143, female (young), Raine Island. " Eyes black, legs white, claws black, bill dark brown colour. The only one seen on the island."--J. M. 4. PHAETHON FLAVIROSTRIS, Brandt. af \ Fernando Noronha (Sept. 1873). \ | Ascension (March 1876). c, male, d, male, e, female, Tongatabou. 507, female, at sea, 19th March, 1875. " Eyes black, legs lake-white. The claws and membrane between the toes quite black.' Bill pale yellow. Came on board the ship on the morning of the 19th March, 1875, before daylight. The bill of a cuttlefish was in the stomach."-J. M. 3. PELECANID^E. 5. S U L A LEUCOGASTRA (Bodd.). Pelecanus sula, Linn. S. N. i. p. 218. Le Fou de Cayenne, Buff. Pl. Enl. 973, unde Pelecanus leucogaster, Bodd. Tabl. de Pl. Enl. p. 57. Sula leucogastra, Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 496. 141, male, Raine Island. " Eyes grey ; feet light green ; bill bluish towards the base, white at the tip."-J. M. 510, female, at sea. " Eyes white or light grey. Stomach had cuttlefish ; feet yellow with green tinge; bill flesh-colour, cere greenish. Came on board the ship on the evening of the 6th April, 1875."--/. M. a, female. Ascension (March 1876). b' \ St. Paul's rocks, Atlantic (August 1873). c> J 6. SULA PISCATOR (Linn.). Pelecanus piscator, Linn. S. N. i. p. 217- Dysporuspiscator, Finsch et Hartl. Orn. Centr.-Polyn. p. 255. 123, female, off Cape York, at sea. " Eves brown • bill and throat light blue-reddish towards the base, ; 42* |