Order PELECAN1F0BME8 
No. 287. 
FamUy PHJSTHONTIDM 
SCiEOPH^THON RUBRICAUDA NOViEHOLLANDI^. 
RUDDY TROPIC BIRD. 
PH-iGTHON NOV^HOLLANDi^ Brandt, Mem. I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VI., Vol. 
V., pt. II., p. 272, 1840 ; Lord Howe Island. 
New Holland Tropic Bird Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. X., p. 448, 1824. 
Phcethon novcehollandice Brandt, Mem. I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VI., Vol. V., 
pt. II., p. 272, 1840. 
Phaeton 'phoenicurus Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 73, 1848 ; Reichenbach, Synops. 
Natat., pi. 56, figs. 350, 351 ; pi. 64, figs. 2551-2, 1850 ; Macgillivray, Narr. 
Voy. “Rattlesnake,” Vol. II., App., p. 359, 1852; Pelzeln, Sitzber. z. b. K.K. Akad. 
Wien., Vol. XLL, p. 331, 1860 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr,, Vol. II., p. 501, 1865 ; 
Etheridge, Austr. Mus. Mem., no. 2, pp. 16, 17, 1889. 
Phoenicurus ruhricauda Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 183, 1856 (part). 
Phaeton ruhricauda Gray, Ibis 1862, p. 250 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. VI., Pelec., 
p. 44, 1863 (part) ; Gray, Handl, Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. in., p. 125, 1871 ; Tristram, 
Ibis 1876, p. 266; Ramsay, Proc, Linn, Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p, 203, 1878; Buller, 
Trans. New Zeal. Inst., 1877, Vol. X., p. 219, 1878 ; Layard, Ibis 1878, p. 265 ; id., 
ih., 1880, p. 233; id., ib., 1882, pp. 542, 544; Buller, Man. Birds New Zeal., p. 97, 
1882 ; Crowfoot, Ibis 1885, p. 268 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., 
p. 186, 1888 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 38, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Mem., no. 2, p. 47, 1889 ; id., Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, pp. 362, 378, pi. xix., fig. 1, 
1890 ; Cheeseman, Trans. New Zeal. Inst., Vol. XXIII., 1890, p. 223, 1891 ; 
Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 154, 1906. 
Phcethon ruhricauda Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 451, 1898 
(part) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 103, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. II., p. 994, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 103, 1906 ; 
Buller, Suppl. Birds New Zeal., Vol. II., p. 53, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 38, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 356, 1912 ; 
Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 148, 1914. 
Phcethon ruhricauda eruhescens Rothschild, Avif. Laysan, pt. iii., p. 296, 1900 ; Kermadec 
Islands. 
Phcethon eruhescens Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 38, 1908 ; Hull, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXXIV., p. 672, 1909; Iredale, Emu, Vol. X., p. 10, pis. iii., 
iv,, 1910. 
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