BOOBY AND MAN-O'-WAR BIRD 



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Young Man-o'-War Birds on their Nests 



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 ; nor 

 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 



