TROPICK BIRD. 
The Tropick Bird is a geniis, consisting of 
three species ; or rather, perhaps, two species* 
and a variety of the first. The Phaeton 
iEthereus, and it's variety, form the first spe- 
cies in the Linnasan system : and the second is 
the Phaeton Phaenicurus, of Linnaeus and 
Gmelin; the Red-Shafted Tropick Bird, of 
BufFon ; and the Red-Tailed Tropick Bird, of 
Latham. With respect to the first species, and 
it's variety, it is to be observed, that both are, in 
the Linnasan system, called by the same name, 
Phaeton iEthereus. BufFon, however, deno- 
minates the former the Great Tropick Bird; 
and the latter, or variety, the Little Tropick 
Bird. This last, Brisson names Lepturus Can- 
didas; and Brown, Alcyon Media Alba. 
Edwards, whose figure we have adopted, 
notices only the larger species ; which is the 
Avis Tropicorura, or Tropick Bird, of Ray, 
Willughby, and himself; and the Plancus 
Tropicus, of Klein. The generical appella- 
tion of BufFon, is L'.Giseau du Tropique; or, 
le Paille-en-Queue: which latter, from it's 
crossness, probably originated with the Dutch 
who 
