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feathers very long and much attenuated, the shafts and the parts 

 of the webs immediately bordering them black ; the remainder of 

 the webs scarlet, shading into white at the base. Tail composed of 

 16 feathers. Iris black ; bill orange-red; legs and upper part of 

 the toes and webs faint blue, rest of toes black. Total length about 

 36 inches, culmeu from feathers on forehead 2'55-2"65, wing 12-3- 

 13-4, tail 17-1S-5, tarsus 1-2. 



Young hirds in first plumage. Have the top of the head, back of 

 tlie neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and many of 

 the lesser and median wing-coverts barred with black ; the four 

 outer primaries and their coverts black along the shaft, the black in- 

 creasing in width towards the extremit)' ; the fifth and sixth primary- 

 quills spotted with lilack near the extremity ; the outermost second- 

 aries black, margined with white ; the tail-feathers spotted with 

 black towards the extremity, the middle pair being white with 

 black tips and not much longer than the second pair ; the black 

 patch in front of the eye rather more developed than in the adult. 

 Bill blackish. 



Hah. Tropical portions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. 



a-d. (S $ ad. sk. Roimd Island, Mauritius. Hume Coll. 



e,f. Ad.etjuv.sk. Round Island, Nov. (C'«p<. Shelley Coll. 



Bewsher). 



ff-k. (S 2 'id- t't riying-tish Cove, Christmas Dr. J. Murray [P.]. 



juv. sk. I., Aug. ( C. W. Andreivs). 



I. Ad. st. Flying-fish Cove, Christmas Dr. J. Murray [P.]. 



I., Aug. {C.W.A.). 



m. Ad. sk. Coast of Australia. Hardwicke Bequest. 



n, 0. Ad. sk. Coast of Australia. Linnean Society [P.]. 



p. 2 j'lv. sk. Raine I., North-east Aus- ' Challenger ' Exped. 



tralia. 



q. Ad. sk. Norfolk Island. Howard Saunders, 



Esq. [P.]. 



/■. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Australian Museum 



[P.]. 



s. Ad. sk. Howland Island. Hume Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Kruseustern Islands, spring Seebohm Coll. 



(O. Snow). 



V, Ad. sk. Kriisenstern Islands, spring Howard Saunders, 



{0. Snow). Esq. [P.]. 



6 fid. et Society Islands. Hume Coll. 



juv. sk. 



2, Phaethon lepturus. 



Tropick Bird, Edw. N. Hist. B. iii. pi. 149 (1750). 



Le Paille-en-cul blauc, Brks. Orn. vi. p. 485, pi. xlii. fig. 2 (1760). 



Le Paillo-eu-queue blanc de I'lsle de 1' Ascension, D'Aubent. PL Enl. 



ix. pi. 73 [no. 369]. 

 Le petit Paille-en-queue, Buff. Hi.it. Nat., Ois. viii. p. 355 (1781). 

 White Tropic Bird, Lat/i. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. ii. p. 618 (1785). 

 Phaeton lepturus, Lacep. Sc Daudin, in Buff'. Hist. Nat. (18mo, Didot), 



Quadr. xiv. p. 319, Ois. xvi. p. 280(1799). 

 Phaeton candidus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. cxii (1820) ; G. R. Gray, 



List ofB. pt. iii. p. 182 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 663, pi. clxxxiii. 



(1847) ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 296 (1849) ; Jouan, Mem. 



