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15. PHAETON RUBRICAUDA, Bodd. 



RED-TAILED TROPIC-BIRD. 



Le Paille-en- Queue a brins rouges, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 357 (1781) (Isle de France) ; Vieill. Tr. d'Orn., 



Atl. pi. Ill (1831). 

 Le Paille-en-Qucite de Visle de France, Daubent. PI. Enl. 979 (1783). 



Phaeton rubricauda, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 57 (1783) (cx Buff. & Daubent. PI. Enl.) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 663; Pcale, U.S. Expl. Exp. (1848) j Gould, B. Austral, vii. pi. 73 (1818) j HartL AViegm. Arch. f. 

 Naturg. 1852, pp. 127, 137; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 395 (1858); E. Newton, Ibis, 1801, p. 180 

 (breeding, Round I. north-east of Mauritius) ; G. E. Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 250 (List B. New Zealand) ; 

 Jcrd. B. India, iii. p. 819 (1801) ; Einsch & Hart!. Faun. Ccntralpolynes. p. 218 (1807) ; Schleg. 

 & Poll. Faune Madagascar, p. 140 (18G8) (observed once, Cardagos I.) ; Sperling, Ibis, 1808, p. 295 

 (Mozambique Channel) ; Beavan, Ibis, 1808, p. 105 (obs. on way to the Andaman*) ; Dole, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. 1809, p. 308 (Niihau and Kauai) ; Iloldsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 482 (Ceylon); Heugl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1472 (1873) ; Hume Stray Ecath. 1870, p. 481 (in the text is stated that it 

 has occurred in the Bay of Bengal, but that the only species Mr. I runic found in the Laccadivcs was 

 P. indicus, Plume, an entirely different species) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1870, p. 20G (New Hebrides); Layard, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 393 (Fiji Is.) ; Marie, Ibis, 1877, p. 303 (Ely Eiver, New Caledonia); Streets, American 

 Naturalist, 1877, p. 71 (Fannings Group) ; Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 205 (New Caledonia, breeding) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1880, p. 233 (Loyalty Is.) ; id. Ibis, 1882, pp. 542, 544 (New Caledonia) ; Sharpe, cd. 

 Layard's B. S. Africa, p. 775 (1875-1884) (" It is with some hesitation that we include this species 

 among the birds of S. Africa. A single red tail-feather was picked up on the beach at Port Elizabeth 

 by our corr. Mr. Packard, who believes that it was freshly cast there ") ; Crowfoot, Ibis, 1885, p. 2G8 

 (breeding, Norfolk Islands, eggs) ; MacFarlane, Ibis, 1887, pp. 210, 213 (W. Pacific, breeding) ; Finsch, 

 Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 125 ; Buller, B. N. Zealand, 2nd cd. ii. p. 180 (1888) ; Sceb. Ibis, 1890, 

 p. 107 (Bonin Is.) ; id. B. Japan, p. 213 (1890) ; id. Ibis, 1891, p. 192 (San Alessandro, Volcano Is.) ; 

 Lister, P. Z. S. 1891, pp. 293, 298 (Phoenix Is.) ; Sibree, Ibis, 1892, p. 271 (Madagascar) ; Wiglesw. 

 Abb. u. Ber. Mus. Dresd. 1890-91, p. 73 {« Av. Polynesia: ") (1892). 



Phaeton phcenicurus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 583 (1788); Shaw, Nat. Misc. v. pi. 177 (1791) ; Sonnini, 

 Sonnerat's Voy. Indes, 2nd ed. v. p. 380 (1800) ; Rupp. Voy. N.O.-Afr. p. 140 (1845) (Southern Bed 

 Sea) ; Brandt, Monogr. Phaetons in Mem. Ac. Petersb. Sc. Nat. iii. p. 253, pis. i., v. (anatomy) ; 

 Gould, B. Austral, vii. pi. 73 (1848) ; Jard. Contr. Orn. v. p. 35, pi. 84 (egg) (1853) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 

 1854, p. 170 (Pacific Is.) ; Tschudi, J. f. O. 1850, p. 149 (Pacific Is.) ; E. Newton, Ibis, 1800, p. 201 

 (Mauritius); Pelz. Ibis, 1800, p. 422 (Norfolk Island) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1800, p. 175 (Mauritius) ; Krefft, 

 Ibis, 1802, p. 192 (Australia, breeding on shoals); Walker, P. Z. S. 1803, p. 379; Layard, Ibis, 1803, 

 p. 247 (Rodriguez, north of Mauritius); Jouan, Ibis, 1805, p. 338 (New Caledonia) ; Gould, Handb. 

 B. Austr. ii. p. 501 (1805) (not personally observed, but gives excellent account by Maegillivray) ; Bennett, 

 P. Z. S. 1809, p. 472 (Lord Howe's I.) ; Hartl. Yog. Madagascar, p. 393 (1877) ; Lister, P. Z. S. 1888, 

 p. 529 (Christmas I.). 



Red-tailed Tropic Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 018; id. Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 147, pi. 183 (1824). 



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