Sula cyanops, Sund.
999bis. :- Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 328.
THE WHITE BOOBY.
Length, 32.5 ; wing, 16.5 ; tail, 8; tarsus, 2.25 ; bill at front, 4. Bill horny-blackish at base ; irides lemon-yellow; legs and feet bluish-grey.
Face to behind the eyes and throat nude ; entire head, neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and entire lower parts white with a slight fulvous tinge; primaries, secondaries and tertials, also the, tail, black.
The White Booby occurs on the Sind Coast.
BookTitle:
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference:
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book:
Sula cyanops
Year:
1885
Page No:
436
Common name:
White Booby
M_ID:
2408
M_CN:
Masked Booby
M_SN:
Sula dactylatra
Term name:
id:
12243
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