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Reported off the coast of the Dominican Republic; abundance 

 uncertain. 



Danf orth writes that " three followed the S. S. Catherine for about 

 an hour off the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic on June 

 14." There is no other record. 



Wilson's petrel, like Leach's petrel, is black with white on the 

 upper tail-coverts, but is a little smaller, and is distinguished by the 

 longer tarsi, the feet in flight projecting beyond the end of the tail 

 so that they are easily seen. 



Order PELECANIFORMES 

 Suborder PHAETHONTES 



Family PHAETHONTIDAE 



PHAETHON LEPTUEUS CATESBYI Brandt 

 YELLOW-BILLED TROPIC-BIED, ItAEIJUNCO, PAILLE-EN-ftUEUE 



Phaethon catesbyi Brandt, Bull. Soc. Imp. Sci. St. P6tersbourg, vol. 4, 1838, 

 p. 98 (Bermuda). 



Phaeton catesbyi Bartsch, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 68, no. 10, 1917, fig. 43 

 (photo taken near Jereniie). 



Phaeton flavirostris, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, 

 p. 98 (listed from Haiti). 



Phaethon flavirostris, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1885, 

 pp. 175-176 (listed) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 84 (Haiti, Dominican 

 Republic). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti. 1892, p. 323 (listed). — Cherrie, 

 Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 26 (Santo Domingo City, 

 specimens). 



Phaethon americanus, Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 137; Beneatb 

 Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 218 (at sea ten miles off Mole St. Nicolas; Bizoton). 



Phaethon lepturus catesbyi, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 

 1928, p. 489 (Tortue Island). 



Phaethon lepturus catesbyi, Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 380 (Puerto Plata). 



Resident; locally along rocky coasts. 



Cherrie found the yellow-billed tropic-bird along the coasts of 

 the Dominican Republic and reports two young and an adult female 

 brought to him at Santo Domingo City on April 19, 1895. Danforth 

 says that Emlen saw three at Puerto Plata, June 30, 1927. 



The tropic-bird is mentioned by Bryant without comment as re- 

 ported from Haiti. Bartsch found a nesting colony of about fifty 

 birds near Jeremie April 10 to 1G, 1917, and saw others at Trou des 

 Roseaux April 14. Doctor Abbott secured a nestling nearly ready to 

 fly at Jean Rabel Anchorage, May 30, 1917, and collected an adult 

 male on Tortue Island, April 8, 1917. He says that tropic-birds 

 breed in the latter locality. Beebe speaks of two seen off Mole St. 



