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Genus XCV. TROPIC BIRD. 



N° i. Common Tr. B. N° 2. Black-billed Tr. B. 



Var. A. 3. Red- tailed Tr. B, 



Var. B. 



ILL comprefTed, (lightly floping down; point fharp; un^ 

 der mandible angular* 

 Noftrils pervious. 



Toes four in number, all webbed together. 

 Tail cuneiform ; the two middle feathers extending for a vaftr 

 Length beyond the others. 



Phaeton xlheieus, Lin. Sjft. i. p. 219. r» Ia 



LaPaille en Cul, Brif. Orn.\i. p. 480. pi. 42. fig. i.—Pernet.Foj. ii. p. 75, COMMON TRi 

 Le grand Paille en Cul, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 348. pi. 28. %' 



Paille en Cul de Cayenne, PI. Enl. 998. 

 Rabijuncos, Ulloa Voy. ii. p. 305. 



Tropic Bird, Raii Syn.p. 123. 6. I91. 4. — Will. Orn. p. 33 1, pi. 75. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf 



^TpHE fize of this bird is about that of a Wigeon: length two Description*. 



feet ten inches, to the tip of the long tail feathers. The 

 bill is more than three inches long, and red : the head 3 neck, and 

 under parts of the body, are white : near the bafe of the upper 

 mandible begins a ftreak of black, which curves round the upper 

 part of the eye, and ends a little way behind in a flrait direction s 

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