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Genus PELAGODROMA, Rcichenbach. 
PELAGODROMA FREGATA, Linnaeus. 
White-faced Storm-Petrel. 
Gould , Handbk. Bds. Aust., VoJ ii., sp. 649, p. 482. 
An average specimen from a number of eggs of this species 
taken on Swan Island, near Queenscliff) Victoria, in November 
1878, measures l - 45 x P08 inch ; it is oval in form and pure white. 
A specimen taken by Mr. E. D. Atkinson on a small island off 
the north-west coast of Tasmania, measures 1 '35 x 1 '07 inch. 
Hah. Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West 
Australia. ( Ramsay .) 
Family PELECANIDJE. 
Genus PHAETON, Linnccus. 
PHAETON RUBRICAUDA, Bodd. 
(P. phamicurus, Gmelin.) 
Red-tailed Tropic Bird. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 660, p. 501. 
This bird ranges over the northern and north-eastern coasts of 
Australia, the islands of Torres Straits and the south coast of New 
Guinea. It usually deposits its eggs, two in number, under the 
shelter of a projecting ledge of rock. Specimens taken on Raine’s 
Islet, lying off the North-eastern coast of Australia, are of a 
redclish-buff ground colour thickly freckled and spotted all over 
with reddish-brown markings, but more particularly towards the 
thicker end, where the markings become confluent and in some 
instances forming a coalesced patch on the larger apex. Length 
(A) 2'65 x 1-85 inches ; (B) 2-6 x 2-85 inches. 
11ab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 
Bay, New South Wales, South Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 
