Plate CCLXII. Male and Female.
Bill, tarsi, and hind toes yellow, the rest of the foot black; general
colour of plumage pale pink, or white tinged with carmine, the two
middle tail-feathers redder; a curved spot before the eye, and a short
band behind it, black; a band of the same colour across the wing from
the flexure, running narrow along the middle coverts, much enlarged on
the inner secondaries and their coverts, and including the extremities
of the scapulars; outer webs, shafts, and a portion of the inner webs
of the first four primary quills, also black; and a spot of the same
on some of the primary coverts; shafts of two middle tail-feathers
black, unless toward the end; some of the elongated feathers on the
hind part of the sides greyish-black in the centre. Female less tinged
with red, and having the tail-feathers less elongated.
_Male_, 29-1/2, 38. _Female_, 26, 34.
Rare on the coast of Florida. Migratory.
Phaeton æthereus, Bonap. Syn. p. 409.
Tropic Bird, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 503.
Tropic Bird, Phaeton æthereus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 442.