English: Young of the Phoeton Aethereus, tropic bird, Matilda Island, South Pacific and detail of foot. Drawing on paper: watercolor Dimensions: 13.7 x 23.7 cm.
Date between circa 1825 and circa 1827
Source UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Object ID: BANC PIC 1963.002:1303:06--AL B
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Author William Smyth (1800-1877)
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The red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), also known as the boatswain bird is a tropicbird, one of three closely related seabirds of tropical oceans. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek phaethon, "sun" and Latin aetherius, "heavenly". The red-billed tropicbird occurs in the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans.