ART. 25] NOTES ON HISPANIOLAN BIEDS — WETMOKE AND LINCOLN 17 



Island they were common from May 10 to 15 and fished steadily all 

 day long in the schools of sardines within 50 yards of our door. We 

 observed fully grown immature individuals with gray heads, adults 

 with white crowns and necks, and numerous adults with the chestnut- 

 brown necks of the breeding dress. We were told that they nested 

 on the eastern shore of Beata. 



Several were seen at Puerto Caiman below Enriquillo on May 16, 

 and others were noted in the harbor at Barahona on May 7, 18, 

 and 19. 



Family SULIDAE, Gannets and Boobies 



SULA LEUCOGASTBA LEUCOGASTRA (Boddaert) 



Brown Boobt 

 Pelecanus leucogaster Boddaert, Table Planches EnL, 1783, p. 57 (Cayenne). 



On May 14 about 20 brown boobies were observed resting on iso- 

 lated rocks 2 kilometers or more offshore from Beata Island, and 

 two were taken, one being adult and the other still partly in immature 

 dress. On May 16 a few were observed at sea between Beata and 

 Puerto Caiman. This species is said to breed on Alta Vela Island. 



This booby was also recorded on March 21 at sea near Watlings 

 Island, in the Bahamas. 



Family FREGATIDAE, Man-o'-war Birds 



FREGATA MAGNIFICENS ROTHSCHILDI Mathews 



Frigate-bird 



Fregata minor rothschildi Mathews, The birds of Australia, vol. 4, pt. 3, June 23, 

 1915, p. 280 (Aruba). 



At lie a Vache from April 27 to 30 frigate-birds were seen regularly 

 about Raquette Cay near the eastern side of the entrance to Feret 

 Bay. One was observed at Beata Island on May 11, one at sea 

 between Beata and Puerto Caiman on May 16, and one offshore 

 from Paradis on May 17. 



In earlier work on the birds of the West Indies, Wetmore ^" followed 

 Rothschild in calling the West Indian bird Fregata magnificens, since 

 birds from the Caribbean area appeared the same as the only two 

 available from the west coast (La Paz and Mazatlan). Recently, 

 Swarth ^* has investigated this matter and finds that typical magni- 

 ficens of the Galapagos Islands seems distinct in larger size, and that 

 specimens of the rnagnificens group from the west coast of Mexico 

 and Lower California are the same as those from the West Indies. 

 The latter are thus to be called Fregata magnificens rothschildi. 



'" The birds of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 

 vol. 9, pt. 3, 1927, p. 287. 

 3i> Condor, vol. 35, no. 3, 1933, pp. 148-150. 



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