. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. IB !!. 186 TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS — STEGANOPODKS. 'M B. Elongated mifldle rectrices with their webs much narrower than the very rigid shaft. 3. P. rubrioauduB.' Bill yellowish ; middle tail-feathers dull reddish, with black shafts ; wing inches or more ; culmen about Hob. South Pacific Ocean. Phaethon flavirostris. THE TELLOW-BILLED TBOPIC BIBD. Leptunm candidus, Bniss. Orn. VI. 1760, 485. Plweton Candidas, Okay, Gen. B. 1847, pi. 183. Pluietmiaethercus, Bodd. Tiibl. P. E. 1783, 22 (ex PI
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. IB !!. 186 TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS — STEGANOPODKS. 'M B. Elongated mifldle rectrices with their webs much narrower than the very rigid shaft. 3. P. rubrioauduB.' Bill yellowish ; middle tail-feathers dull reddish, with black shafts ; wing inches or more ; culmen about Hob. South Pacific Ocean. Phaethon flavirostris. THE TELLOW-BILLED TBOPIC BIBD. Leptunm candidus, Bniss. Orn. VI. 1760, 485. Plweton Candidas, Okay, Gen. B. 1847, pi. 183. Pluietmiaethercus, Bodd. Tiibl. P. E. 1783, 22 (ex PI. Enl. 309 ; nee Linn., 1758). — Bonap. Synoji. 1828, no. 361; Consp. II. 1855, 183. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 503. — Aud. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 442; Synop. 1839, 312 ; B. Am. VII. 1844, 64, pi. 427. Phaethon flavirostris, Bkandt, Bull. Sc. Acad. St. Petersb. II, 1837, 349. —ScL. P Z. S. 1856,144. — Lawu. in Baiid's B. N. Am. 1858, 885. — Baiud, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 629. — CouKs, Key, 1872, 307 ; Check List, 1873, no. 538 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 763. — Ridgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 654. ?Phcetonflavo-aurantiits, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. VII. April, 1860, 143 (hab. ignot.). " Phaeton Edwardi, ; Tlie Tropic Bird, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. 1749, pi. 149. Hab. Atlantic coasts of Central America, north to Florida ; West Indies ; Samoan Islands. Sp. Char. Bill yellow. Advlt: General color satiny white, usually tinged more or less with salmon-pink ; a broad crescent before the eye and a stripe behind it, exposed portion of the poste- rior scapulars, inner tertials, a broad stripe across the middle of the middle wing-covert region, and outer webs of four to six outi'r primaries deep black. Shafts of tlie tail-feathers, and of all the primaries toward the base, and a broad stripe on the inner web of the outer prima- ries next the shaft also black ; edge of longer scapulars and ends of outer webs of outer primaries white ; flanks longitudinally striped with bla
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