BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
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FAM. SULID^E. 
GANNETS. 
SUL A FIBER. (. Linn .) 
Booby Gannet. 
Adult Male . — Head, throat, upper part of breast, tail, and entire 
upper plumage, dark olive-brown ; under parts, white ; gular sack, 
pale yellow ; upper mandible, greenish ; feet, pale yellowish green ; 
iris, yellowish. 
Length 27, wing 15.50, tail 8, tarsus 1.60, bill 4. 
About the 1st of February this species repairs to the desolate 
and uninhabited keys to breed. At the Miraporvos we procured a 
number of the old birds as well as a few fully fledged young ones, but 
they were evidently preparing to leave. Dr. Bryant gives an inter- 
esting account of an earlier visit to these breeding-grounds. He 
says, “ My first visit to one of their breeding-places was made on the 
10th of April, at St. Domingo Key, which lies thirty-three miles 
south of Great Ragged Island, and is at the very extremity of the 
southern point of the bank, entirely out of the range of vessels of 
any kind, and is probably never visited except occasionally by people 
from Ragged Island, who go there to collect the eggs of the Noddy. 
The key is about three or four acres in extent, so low that in storms 
