[mod.L. (Willughby, 1676), a. ON. sūla.] Applied by Hoier and others to a supposed variety of sea-fowl; in modern Ornith. a genus of gannets (family Sulidæ).
1678. Ray, Willughby’s Ornith., III. 331. The Sula of Hoier,… near of kin to, if not the same with the Soland-goose.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. xii. 262. The Sula is like the Soland Goose for Bodily shape.
1766. Pennant, Brit. Zool., 162.
