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RED-TAILED TROPIC-BIRD. 



are striated black and white : the legs are black. In- 

 habits Turtle and Palmerstone Islands, in the South 

 Seas. 



RED-TAILED TROPIC-BIRD. 



(Phaeton phoenicurus.) 



Pn, roseo-incarnatusj rostro rectricibusque duabus intermediis 



rubris, tcenia superciliari pedibusque nigris. 

 Rosy flesh-coloured Tropic-bird, with the beak and two middle 



tail-feathers red, with a superciliary band and the legs black. 

 Phaeton phoenicurus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 583. Lath. Ind, Orn, 



895. 



Paille-en-queue a brins rouges. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 357. 

 Paille-en-queue de I'isle de France. Buff. PI. Enl. 979. 

 Red-tailed Tropic-bird. Lath. Ge?i. Syn. 6. 619. pL 105. Lath. 

 Gen. Hist. x. 447. 



Two feet ten inches in length, including the two 

 middle tail-feathers, which alone measure twenty-one 

 inches : the beak is deep red : the plumage cream- 

 colour, delicately tinged with pale rose-colour : over 

 the eyes a black crescent: scapulars tipped with black: 

 the shafts and base of the two middle tail-feathers 

 black ; the rest of the webs bright red : the sides over 

 the thighs dusky : the legs black. 



Like its congeners this bird prefers the countries 

 within the tropics : it occurs, however, in most plenty 



