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allows it to " flop about " in an apparently purposeless 

 manner. 



The colours of the soft parts in young males and young 

 females are as follows : — 



Bill pale bluish grey, light lavender-blue at base. 



Interramal bare space pale lavender-blue, darker here and 

 there. 



Iris sepia-brown ; circumorbital bare space dark cobalt-blue. 



Webs and feet pale flesh-coloured. 



The two birds from which the notes of these colours were 

 taken were a male and female respectively, with the entirely 

 black head and nape. I took them home in a frozen state 

 to Mr, Pycraft, and together we tried to distend the gular 

 sac by artificial means, but after repeated efforts failed to 

 do so. 



Phaeton .liTHEREUs Linn. 



We found numbers of these beautiful birds breeding in 

 holes among the broken masses of rocks which were strewn 

 everywhere on the steep slopes of the island, but not 

 until we had reached an altitude of about 300 feet. No 

 attempt at making any sort of nest is made. At the 

 time of our visit the nesting-places contained both eggs and 

 downy young. The breeding-habits do not appear to differ 

 in any particular from those of P. americanus, except in 

 regard to the time of year at which the birds commence. I 

 have found the latter species breeding in the Bermudas in 

 the middle of May. 



Cham^pelia perpaxlida. 



Columbigallina passerina perpallida Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 

 p. 304. 



1 noticed a fair number of these Ground- Doves. They 

 were exceedingly tame and allowed us to approach within 

 three or four yards of them. The specimens 1 secured are 

 the palest I have seen. 



Margarops fuscatus (Vieillot). 



Margarops fuscatus fuscatus Ridgway, Birds North & 

 Middle Amer. pt. iv. p. 265. 



