Farn. Phaethontidae. — 1468 — Gen. Phaethon. 



Audub. B. of Am. t. 262. — Audub. Orn. Biogr. III. p. 412. — 

 Audub. B. Amer. (8°. Ed.) t. 427. — Phaethon aethereus , Brandt, 

 Monogr. Phaeth. p. 19. t. 2. — Tropicophilus aethereus, Rchb. t. LVI. 

 f. 349. — Phaeton aethereus, Schleg. Cat. Pelec. p. 43. — Brehm, 

 Thierl. IV. p. 910. — Gray, B. Trop. Isl. p. 60. — Tschudi, Consp. 

 Av. Peruan. p. 57. — Cassin, Unit. St. Explor. Exp. 1858. p. 394. 

 — ? Reimers , Rhea I. p. 25. — Naum. V. D. XIII. p. 284. — 

 Finsch & Hartl. Orn. Centr. Polyn. p. 250. — Tuckey, Voy. Zaire 

 p. 32. — Hartl. W. Afr. Nr. 727. — Finsch & Hartl. 0. Afr. p. 

 840. — Heugl. Peterm. Geogr. Mitth. 1860. p. 350. — 1869. p. 

 418. — Heugl. Faun. Roth. Meer Nr. 319. & p. 32. — Brehm, 

 Habesch p. 422. — Heugl. Reise nach Abess. 18f|-. p. 67. — König- 

 Warth. Neott. Stud. Nr. 124. — Des Murs, Trait. d'Orn. p. 460. — 

 Thienem. Fortpfl. t. VC. f. 2. — Q. & Gaim. Ann. sc. nat. III. 1824. 

 p. 123. — Jard. Contrib. Orn. 1852. p. 36. pl. 84. f. 2, — Licht. 

 Nomencl. p. 104. — Heugl. Ibis 1859. p. 351. — Newton, Ibis 

 1859. p. 370. — Taylor, Ibis 1864. p. 172. — Blyth, Ibis 1865. 

 p. 40. — 1867. p. 178. — Hume, Ibis 1872. p. 468. — Kirk, Ann. 

 & Mag. of N. H. XX, p. 401. (Ph. flavirostris? ) — Hartl. Cab. 

 Journ. 1854. p. 170. — Bolle, Cab. Journ. 1856. p. 29. — v. Tschudi, 

 Cab. Journ. 1856. p. 148. & 149. — Gundl. Cab. Journ. 1857. p. 

 239. — v. Martens, Cab. Journ. 1859. p. 221. — Hartl. Cab. Journ. 

 1861. p. 273. — Gundl. Cab. Journ. 1862. p. 96. — Albrecht, Cab. 

 Journ. 1862. p. 207. — Heugl. Cab. Journ. 1867. p. 283. — Finsch 

 & Hartl. Cab. Journ. 1870. p. 122. — Gräffe, Cab. Journ. 403. & 

 411. — Dohrn, Cab. Journ. 1871. p. 8. — Gundl. Cab. Journ. 1871. 

 p. 290. — Finsch, Cab. Journ. 1872. p. 33. & 57. — Gray, B. B. 

 Mus. III. p. 182. 



Candidus ; infra vix auroreo-tinctus ; stragali cervicisque plumis 

 sagittatim nigro-fasciolatis; area anteoculari nigerrima; remigibus 

 5 — 6 extimis nigerrimis, in pogonio interno late et abrupte albo- 

 rnarginatis; sequentium scapis nigris; alae tectricibus minoribus 

 posticis et tertiariis nigris, partim albo-marginätis ; hypochondriis 

 nigro-striölatis ; rectricibus albis* scapis basin versus partim nigris, 

 x \ x intermediis valde elongatis et angustatis; rostro serrato, san- 

 guineo-rubro , Stria utrinque nasali tomiisque nigricantibus, cul- 



