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BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
FAM. PHAETHONTIDAL 
TROPIC BIRDS. 
PHAETHON FLA VIROSTRIS. Brandt. 
Tropic Bird. 
Local Name. — Egg Bird. 
* Adult Male. — Bill, pale orange-yellow; general plumage, white, 
sometimes slightly rosy-tinted ; most of primaries showing much 
black, a streak passing through the eye ; some of the wing-coverts 
and shafts of tail-feathers, black; tail extended into two very long 
feathers, which are reddened ; tarsus, bluish ; iris, black ; webs and 
toes, black. 
Length, including tail-feathers, 31.50, wing 11, tail 21, tarsus 
.90, bill 2. 
This elegant and graceful species becomes abundant among the 
Bahamas during the summer months. They are never found breed- 
ing together in large communities, like the Anous stoledus or Sterna 
fuliginosa, but appear to be more solitary in their habits. 
Dr. Bryant, in writing of this species, says, “ I visited three 
breeding-places at Long Rock, near Exuma. They breed in holes 
