FREGATA MINOR. 
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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 (Su/a serralor ? and Sula 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. 
