1909. | FAUNA OF COCOS-KEELING ATOLL. 137 
IOVIDS: 
CoLUBBIFORMES. 
(1) CARPOPHAGA WHARTONI Sharpe. 
Native name, ‘ Pergam.” 
- Jntroduced from Christmas Island, but now (1906) practically 
extinct in the atoll. 
RALLIFORMES. 
(2) RaLLus PHILIPPENsIs Linn. 
Native name, ‘“* Ayam utan.” 
Very abundant on all the islands, and is everywhere very tame, 
it being a matter of some difficulty to make it take wing. It 
feeds on the shore when the tide is out, but it may also be seen 
perched high in papaia trees eating the ripe fruit, and it has a 
bad name for eating the eggs of domestic fowls. It nests in 
September, in tufts of grass, about a foot from the ground ; it 
lays from two to six eggs, very like the English Corncrake’s. The 
young are all black when hatched, and can run directly they are 
out of the egg. The call-note isa shrill grating sound, and in 
the breeding-season the cock adds a deep croak not unlike the 
noise made by frogs. This species is not found in Christmas 
Island. 
LARIFORMES, 
(3) SrerNA FULIGINOSA Gmel. 
Native name, “ Burung dali.” 
Breeds in Keeling Island but not in very great numbers. It 
keeps very much to itself on the breeding grounds, and lays one 
egg in the sand above the beach rise, on the western side of the 
island. By sailors it is called the whale-bird. Although not 
uncommon, and often seen at sea, far from the atoll, it does not 
oceur on Christmas Island. 
(4) Anous stotipus Linn. 
Native name, ‘“ Burung krok.” 
Not resident in the Southern atoll, but a frequent visitor to the 
lagoon. In Keeling atollon it breeds in great numbers. In June 
the breeding-season has almost come to an end. The nests are 
made about a foot above the ground, on little collections of sea- 
tossed wrack. In the atollon all the ‘“noddies” build close 
together in a rather limited area. Only one egg was found in 
each nest. 
(5) Gyais canpipA Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1223. 
Native name, ‘‘ Burung chuit-chuit ” (onomatopeic). 
Darwin noted the bird in 1836 (‘ Naturalist’s Voyage,’ p. 462), 
and H. O. Forbes gave an account of it in 1879 (‘ Naturalist’s 
Wanderings,’ p. 34). The bird agrees with the description of 
