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proportions. They did not associate witli the other species; the 

 young birds and eggs were all in one part of the island. When half 

 fledged, they are very pretty, the snowy-white down with which they 

 are covered formino- a strikinsc contrast with the dark brown of the 

 tail and wings just ajDpearing. Their habits are just the same as 

 those of the Boobies, and their internal structure presents no appre- 

 ciable difference." 



