Red-billed tropicbird variety, Phaethon aethereus. The tropic bird, Phaeton aethereus, var. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1830.

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