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TROPIC BIRD. 



them by way of ornament in various manners ; they are worn in 

 the caps of the Sandwich IJlanders, being in great plenty at 

 Taboora*, as alfo in various parts of their drefs; but in none 

 more confpicuous than in the mourning garment of Qtaheite, 

 in which ifland numbers are picked up in the mountainous parts 3 . 

 where it alfo breeds -f\ The flefh cannot be called good, but 

 was found fufficiently acceptable to thofe who had long been 

 confined to fait provilions, and in which circumftance the failors 

 did not defpife it. 



Var. A. 

 WHITE TR, B, 



Description. 



Flacs, 



Le Paille en Cul blanc, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 485. 2. pi. 42. fig. 2. 

 Le petit Paille en Queue, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 355. 

 Paille en Queue de l'Ifle de France a PL Enl. 369. 



Tropic Bird, Catejb. Car. App. pi. 14. — Brown. Jam. p. 482.— Edin*. 

 pi, 149. fig. 2. 



'TPHIS is lefs than the lad. The bill cinereous at the bafe s . 

 the reft of the length yellowifh : the plumage in general of 

 a filvery white : it has the black crefcent round the eye,, as in the 

 other ; and the fcapulars, like that, marked with black : the 

 legs yellowifh : bafe of the toes the fame ; the reft of the length, 

 the webs, and claws, black. 



This is faid to be found in various places, as the other, of 

 which it appears a variety. 



Cook's loft Voy. ii. p. 2.32.— -iii. p. 172, 



f Forft. Voy. ii. p. 92. 



Le 



