Family III. PLOTIDÆ.
(Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 410, 1898.)
I. PLOTUS, Linn.
(Ogilvie Grant, t. c. p. 410.)
1. rufiis, Baud. (p. 412.)
2. melanogaster (Gm.). (p. 414.)
3. novæ-hollandiæ, Gould, (p.417.)'
4. anhinga (Linn.), (p. 419.)
N. Syria
(Lake of Antioch).
Tropical Africa.
Madagascar.
Mesopotamia,
Indian Peninsula,
Indo-Chinese countries,
Indo-Malayan Peninsula,
Borneo,
Philippine Is.,
Celebes.
Australia.
New Zealand.
S.E. New Guinea.
Tropical N. Ajnerica.
C. & S. America.
5. nanus, E. Newt. Gadow, Tr. Z. S. xiii. p. 288 Mauritius (Pleistocene
(1893).
pathUS, Be Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii.
p. 1286 (1888).
Queensland
(Post-Tertiary).
Family IV. STJLIDÆ.
(Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 423.)
I. STILA, Briss.
(Ogilvie Grant, t. c. p. 423.)
1. bassana (Linn.), (p. 425.)
2. serrator, Gray. (p. 428.)
3. capensis (Licht.). (p. 429.)
N. Atlantic.
Gulf of Mexico (winter).
N. Africa (winter).
Canary Is. (winter).
Australia.
New Zealand.
S. Africa to Zanzibar and
Lower Congo,
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4. cyanops (Sundev.). (p. 432.) S. Tropical Seas.
5. abbotti, Ridgw., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 599 Assumption Id.,
(1893). Indian Ocean.
6. piscatrix (Linn.), (p. 432.)
7. websteri, Rothsch., Bull. B. O. C. vii. p. liii
(1898). (p. 655.)
8. variegata (Tschudi). (p. 434.)
9. nebouxi, Milne-Edw. (p. 435.)
10. sula (Linn.), (p. 436.)
11. brewsteri, Goss. (p. 440.)
12. arbetnensis, Milne-Edw. (Lydekker, Cat. Foss.
B. p . 46.)
13. roitJOtti, Gerv. (Lyd. t. c. p. 46.)
14. pggntaca, Milne-Edw., Bibl. Haut Études, vi.
art. v. (1874).
15. lomtgla, Cope, Tr. Amer. Phil. Soc. xiv. p. 236
(1872).
S. Atlantic.
Indian & Australian Seas.
Oceania.
Clarion Isl. to Lower
California.
Western S. America.
Western America
. (Lower California to
Chile).
Tropical Atlantic.
Indian, Australian, and
Pacific Oceans.
W. America
(Lower California to
Galapagos Is.).
France (Lower Miocene).
France (Lower Miocene)
France (Miocene).
N. Carolina (Miocene),
Family V. FREGATIDÆ.
(Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 442, 1898.)
I. FREGIATA, Briss.
(Ogilvie Grant, t. c. p. 442.)
1. aquila (Linn.), (p. 443.)
2. ariel (Gould), (p. 447.)
Tropical & Sub-tropical
Oceans of both hemispheres.
Tropical & Sub-tropical
Indian and Pacific
Oceans.