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CONFESSIONS OF A BEACHCOMBER 



Black-naped Tern 

 Noddy - 

 White-capped Noddy 



White Ibis - 

 Straw-necked Ibis 



Sterna melanauchen. 

 Anous stolidus. 

 Micranous kucocapillus. 



IBISES 



Ibis Molucca. 

 Carphibis spinicollis. 



HERONS 



Plumed Egret 



White Egret 



White-fronted Heron 



Reef Heron - 



Little Mangrove Bittern 



Yellow-necked Mangrove Bittern 



Mesophoyx plumifera. 

 Herodias timoriensis. 

 Notophoyx novm-hoUandia. 

 Demiegretta sacra. 

 Butorides stagnatilis. 

 Dupetor Gouldi. 



Little Cormorant 

 Darter - 



Masked Gannet 

 Red-legged Gannet 

 Brown Gannet (Booby) 

 Lesser Frigate Bird 

 Pelican 



Black-throated Grebe 



POUCHERS 



Phalacrocorax melanokucus. 

 Plotus novce-hollandiw. 

 Sula cyanops. 

 Sula piscator. 

 Sula sula {fiber). 

 Fregata artel. 

 Pelicanus conspidllatus. 



DIVER 



Podicipes novce-hollandice. 



DUCKS 



Black Duck ■ 

 Grey Teal 



Anas superciliosa. 



Nettion (Anas) gibberifrons. 



Why have we no residential parrot, though cockatoos 

 are plentiful ; no scrub turkey though the megapode 

 scampers in all directions in the jungle ; no common black 

 crow, nor butcher bird, though other shrikes (the magpie for 

 instance) come and go ; no wren, no finch, no lark ? Scrub 

 turkeys {Tallegalla lathamt), mound builders like the 

 megapode, are plentiful all along the coast, at certain 

 seasons visiting the scrub which margins the opposite 

 beach, but they are not found on these islands. The blue 



