204 BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
PAV PHAR THONE DAs. 
A IROIWPHE III IDS. 
PHAETHON FLAVTIROSTRIS. Brandt. 
Tropic Birb. 
Local Name.— Egg Bird. 
Adult Male,— Bill, pale orange-yellow; general plumage, white, 
sometimes slightly rosy-tinted; most of primaries showing much 
black, a streak passing through the eye; some of the wing-coverts 
and shafts of tail-feathers, black; tail extended into two very long 
feathers, which are reddened; tarsus, bluish; iris, black; webs and 
toes, black. 
Length, including tail-feathers, 31.50, wing 11, tail 21, tarsus 
go, bill 2. 
This elegant and graceful species becomes abundant among the 
Bahamas during the summer months. They are never found breed- 
ing together in large communities, like the Azous stoledus or Sterna 
fuliginosa, but appear to be more solitary in their habits. 
Dr. Bryant, in writing of this species, says, “I visited three 
breeding-places at Long Rock, near Exuma. They breed in holes 
