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Red-tailed Tropicbird ( Phaethon rubrlcauda ) 
Current Status; No recent records, formerly common 
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found Red-t ailed Tropicbirds "more abundant than usual" /(Cassin 1852 
Correia visited the island in March 1924 he made no mention of this species a 
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