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BIRDS OF THE GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO— BTDGWAY. vouxix. 



PHAETHON iETHEREUS, Linnaeus. 



Phaiithun wtltereiis, I.ixN.EUS, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, 1758, p. 134.— Salvin, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc, IX, I't. IX, 187(5, p. 497 (Tower Island, Galapagos Archipelago).— 

 Bairo, Huewku and Kidgway, Water Birds N. Amer.. 11. 1884, p. 189. — 

 EiDGWAY, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 1887, p. 74. 



Range. — Intertropical seas iu general, north, in America, to tlie 

 Bahamas and Lower California (accidentally to Newfoundland). Gala 

 pagos Archipelago: Tower Island (Habel, Baur and Adams). 



ASCEKTAINEI) HANGE OK THE GENUS ARDEA, LINN^^U.'^, IX THE GALAPAGOS 



ARCHIPELAGO. 



OUTLINE CHART 

 OF THE 



GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. 



1. Jrdca hrrotl'ui.s. Linu;i-as .' 



No specimens of this species were contained in the collection made 

 by Mr. Townsend nor in that by Messrs. Baur and Adams, though the 

 latter found it breeding on Tower Island. The following fresh color 

 notes are transcribed from ^Ir. Adams' note book: 



Beak a trifle brown (madder brown) added to crim.son; light part of tarsus and 

 foot cream-buff, with middle of larger scales on foot ocher yellow. 



