SUIiA 'LEUOOGASTRA, Bodd. 

 (S. fiber, Linnseus.) 

 Bro-wn Gannet. 

 Gould, Eandbk. Bds. Aust; Vol. ii., sp. 663, p. 507. 



The members of the " Che vert Expedition " (fitted out by the 

 Hon. Wm. Macleay), found this bird breeding in great numbers 

 on Bramble Cay, during 1875. 



The nests were built upon the ground and consisted of a 

 •few dried sticks and grasses, and were placed so close together, 

 that it was difficult to walk without treading upon them, most of 

 them contained two eggs of a bluish-white colour thickly coated 

 with Ume, which in some parts is scratched off evidently by the 

 feet, of the bird, revealing the true colour of the shell ; they are 

 oval in form and vary considerably in size. Two eggs in the 

 Australian Museum Collection measure as follows : — length: (A) 

 2-33 X 142 inches ; (B) 2-45 x 1-65 inches. 



Specimens in the Macleayan Museum Callection give the 

 following measurements : — length (A) 2-'35 x r48 inches ; (B) 2'4 

 X 1"45 inches. 



Hai. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Cape York, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 



Genus TACHYPETES, Vieillot. 



TACHYPETES MINOR, Gmelin. 

 SmaJl Frigate-Bird. 

 Gould, Eandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 659, p. 499. 



This bird, is found breeding in colonies on the islands of Torres 

 Straits ; the nest is composed of sticks and twigs, and placed 

 on the ground X)r in low .bushes, the eggs are one or two in numiber 

 for a sitting, of a^ chalkynwhite colour. An average specimen 

 dn tjie Australian Museum Collection, ^^ken on Raine's Islet, by 

 Mr. Macgillivray, measures 2 '5 inches in length by 1'7 inch in 

 breadth. 



