TROPIC BIRD. 443 



GENUS CX—TROPIC BIRD. 



1 Comrtibn Tropic Bird II B Var. m 3 Red-tailed 



A Var. 2 Black-billed || 4 New-Holland 



BlLL compressed, slightly sloping down ; point sharp ; under 

 mandible angular. 



Nostrils pervious. 



Tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers extending for a vast 

 length beyond the others. 



Toes four in number, all webbed together. 



1— COMMON TROPIC BIRD. 



Phaeton sethereus, hid. Orn. ii. 893. Lin. i. 219. Gm.Lin.i, 581. Borowsk. m. 23. 



t. 34. Bartr. Trav. p. 293. Germ. v. t. 516. Tern. Man. Anal. p. cxi. 

 Larus rarissimus, Robert, le. pi. 6. 

 Lepturus, Bris. vi. 480. t. 42. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 48. 

 Avis Tropicorum, Rati, 123. 6. Id. 191. 4. Will. 250. t. 76. Kalm. It. ii. 149. 



Osb. It. 291. Tertr. Antill. ii. 276. t. 246. 

 Plancus tropicus, Klein, Av. 145. 7. 



Der fliegende Sonnenvogel, Schmid, Vog. p. 152. t. 136. 

 Rabijuncos, Ulloa's Voy. ii. 305. 

 Cola de Junco, Gabin. de Madrid, ii. p. 1. lam. 36. 



Grand Paille-en-Queue, Buf. viii. t. 48. pi. 28. PI. enl. 998. Pernet. Voy. ii. pi. 75. 

 Tropic Bird, Gen. Syn. vi. 685. Will. Engl. 331. pi. 75. 



THIS bird is about the size of a Wigeon ; length two feet ten 

 inches to the end of the long tail feathers. The bill more than three 

 inches long, and red ; the head, neck, and under parts of the body, 

 white ; near the base of the upper mandible begins a streak of black, 

 which curves round the upper part of the eye, and ends a little 

 way behind in a straight direction ; the back, rump, and scapulars, 

 are white, crossed with curved streaks of black ; the lesser wing 

 coverts white, some of them transversely marked with black ; greater 



quills black, margined with white ; sides over the thighs black, or 



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