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Nidification. — Large numbers of this species nest on Raine Islet, in Torres Straits; and there must be 

 other localities in the Australian seas where it breeds. In Raine Islet Commander Ince, R.N., found it 

 breeding on the south-west corner of it, the nests being constructed of small sticks collected from shrubs 

 and herbaceous plants which alone clothe the island. The eggs were two in number, larger than those of the 

 Gannets (Sula serrator ? and Sulci cyanops ?) , and pure white. He remarks that on one occasion he killed the 

 old birds from a nest which contained one young one, and that on revisiting the spot he found the young bird 

 had been removed to another nest, the owners of which were feeding it as if it had been their own. 



