BOOBY AND MAN-O'-WAR BIRD 



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Young Man- 



i;ii (K on 1 lifir Xests 



mine to orange, and only one individual was seen with the 

 pouch inflated, as Fisher has described it. As I attempted to 

 approach this bird the pouch was suddenly deflated. 



The Man-o'-War birds were not seen to devour the 

 young of their own species, as they have been said to do ; noi' 

 were they observed to capture young Boobies. Occasionally 

 they chased the adult Boobies and made them disgorge in 

 the air, but evidently, in the main, they did their own pur- 

 veying, flying-fish being taken from one bird that was shot. 



The adults were not heard to utter a sound. 



The nests were frail, open-worked, slightly hollowed 

 platforms, composed of small sticks and twigs, placed in the 



