454 PHAEXHOXTID^. 



Soc. Cherbourg, ix. p. 241 (1863) [New Caledonia] ; Schleg. M^is. 

 Pmjs-Bas, \\' Pelec. p. 43 (18o3) ; Jerd. B. Lid. iii. p. 850 (1864) ; 

 Schleg. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 426 ! Reunion] ; Schleg. S, Pollen, Reck. 

 Madagasc. pt. ii. p. 138 (1868) ; Hartl. Sf Finsch, P. Z. S. 1868, 

 p. 9 [Pelew Is.]; Finsch, J. f. O. 1872, pp. 33, 57 [Samoa]; 

 Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 393 [Fiji] ; Hartl. Vog. Madagasc. p. 394 

 (1877) ; Finsch, J.f. 0. 1880, pp. 296, 309 [Caroline Is.] ; Nicholson, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 70 [West I., Java] ; Snlimd. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 425 

 (1882) ; Grandidier, Hist. Madagasc, Ois. p. 699, pis. 279-280 

 (1885) ; Sfejn. P. U.S. Nat. Mm. xiv. p. 493 (1891) [Japan]. 



Common Tropic Bird A, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 445 (1824). 



Phaeton setliereus, var.. Griff, ed. Cuv. pi. facing p. 657 (1829). 



Phaeton albus, Schinz, Naturg. Ahhild. Vog. p. 389 (1833). 



Phaeton flavirostri.s,i>V«;(f7/', Bull. Acad. St. Pctersb. ii. p. 349 (1837) ; 

 id. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (6) v. pt. ii. Livr. v. p. 263, pis. 3, 4 

 (1840) [Reunion] ; Reichenb. Natatores, pi. xxx. uos. 853-4 (1850) ; 

 Neivton, Ibis, 1861, pp. 116, 181, 276 [Mauritius]; Hartl. Orn. 

 Madagasc. p. 86 (1861) ; Roch ^- Newton, Ibis, 1863, p. 175 [Ma- 

 dagascar] ; Layard, Ibis, 1863, p. 248 [liabits] ; Beavan, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 3-34 [Andaman Is.]; Newton, Ibis, 1867, p. 345 

 [Seychelles]; G. R. Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 124 (1871); Hume, 

 Str. F. ii. p. 323 (1874) [Ross Island], v. p. 498 (1877) [Cachar] ; 

 Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iv. p. 84 (1879) [Savo, Solomon 

 Is.] ; Penrose, Ibis, 1879, p. 277 [Ascension] ; Leqge, B. Ceylon, iii. 

 p. 1172 (1880) ; ScJat. c^- Salo. Voy. Chall., Zool. pt. ix. p. 119 

 (1880) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1880, p. 333 [Marshall Group], p. 434 

 [Gilbert Is.], 1881, p. 109 [Kushai I.], p. 115 [Pouape] ; Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 144 [Savo, Solomon is.'] ; Oates, B. Bnrmah, ii. 

 p. 225 (1883). 



Phaeton edward.sii, Brandt, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (6) v. pt. ii. 

 p. 271 (1840) ; Reichenb. Natatores, pi. xxix.'= no. 2298 (1850). 



Lepturus candidus, Bonaj). Consp. Ar. ii. p. 183 (1855). 



? Phaeton aethereus, Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. !V. ii. p. 203 

 (1877) [N. Australia & S. New Guinea]. 



Adult. General colour of the plumage pure white ; a black band 

 bordering the sides of the head passes through the eye and terminates 

 in a crescent-shaped mark above the gape ; a black band along the 

 wing formed by the black tips of the median wing-coverts ; scapulars 

 and innermost secondaries with the terminal half of both webs 

 obliquely black; four outermost pi'imaries with the outer web and 

 a portion of the inner next the shaft black to within about an inch 

 and a half of the extremity ; fifth with only a narrow line of black 

 along the shaft, and the outer web black for a short distance from 

 its base ; long flank-feathers broadly striped down the middle of the 

 terminal half with greyish black ; shafts of quills and tail-feathers 

 black on the upper surface, white towards the tip. Tail composed 

 of 12 feathers. Basal two-thirds of the upper and lower mandibles 

 dark blackish horn ; culmen, cutting-edges, and terminal third 

 yellow. Total length about 30 inches, culmen 1-8-2, wing 10-10"6, 

 tail 17-3-21, tarsus 0-8-0-9. 



Young. Top of the head, back, scapulars, innermost secondaries, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and flanks barred with black, most of the 



