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198. SULA PISCATRIX. 

 (RED-FOOTED BOOBY.) 



Pekcanus piscator, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i, p. 217 (1766). 



The Red-footed Booby has coral-red feet at all ages. When adult 

 it is white with brown quills ; but immature birds are brbwn all over, 

 slightly paler on the underparts. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Australia, vii. pi. 79. 



The Red-footed Booby has been admitted to the Japanese fauna 

 on the authority of an example in the possession of Mr. Whitely, 

 said to have been collected by Mr. Abel A. J. Gower while Consul 

 in Japan (Blakiston, Amended List of the Birds of Japan, p. 34). 

 I have an example of this species which was caught at sea by Mr. 

 Snow between Japan and the Kruzenstern Rocks, which lie about 

 sixty degrees due east of Formosa. It has occurred on the Philip- 

 pine Islands (Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 246), and has a very 

 wide range, westwards across the Indian Ocean, southwards to 

 Australia, and eastwards across the Pacific Ocean. 



199. PHAETON RUBRICAUDA. 



(RED-TAILED TROPIC-BIRD.) 



Phaetm rvbricauda, Boddaert, Tajjl. PI. Enl. p. 57 (1783). 



The Red-tailed Tropic-bird is a white bird with a yellow bill and 

 two long red feathers in the tail. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Australia, vii. pi. 73. 



Mr. Hoist writes that there is a bunch of the tail-feathers of the 

 Red-tailed Tropic-bird in the Tokio Museum labelled Bonin Islands ; 

 and he was told on the Parry Islands that a white bird with a red 

 tail was common there at certain seasons (Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, 

 p. 107). I have a skin which was procured by Mr. Snow in the 

 spring of 1883 on the Kruzenstern Rocks, about forty degrees to the 

 east of the Bonin Islands. 



The Red-tailed Tropic-bird frequents the Indian aud Pacific 

 Oceans, principally within the tropics. 



