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VoL. VI 
5. BLUE FACED EODBY AND YOUNG 
notes as they foraged among the wiry salt-grass, we espied an old booby feeding 
its yoimg, in a highly gruesome m inner. The process was promptly photographed 
at close range, and as sometimes happens, the better of the two exposures (Fig. 4) 
was badly light- 
struck, the beam 
almost obscuring 
the body of the 
bird. An enlarge- 
ment was made 
from this negative, 
the body touched 
up, and the result 
re-p h o t ographed. 
The head, neck, and 
voung liird were 
not light struck. 
Tliese two ])ictures 
show better than 
any description the 
exact manner ot 
feeding. The head 
of the young is 
thrust fairly into 
the throat of the ])arent, wh.o disgorges the fish, contained in its very spacious 
stomach. In the few stomachs v\e examined the flying fish, their fa\’orite food, 
had been swallowed whole. Whether the mother waits lill this is partially digest- 
ed, or allow s the bi rd 
to nioble at the end 
I am unable to say. 
The latter view seems 
a bit absurd, but the 
voung kept its head 
in t lie throat an in 
ordinately long time, 
and for several courses 
in succession. Note 
the rigidity of the 
neck muscles, and, in 
fact, of the whole pose 
of the old bird. We 
were on Eaysan a 
week, but did not 
again witness the 
feeding. 
d he young bird 
neaily always keeps 
its head under the 
parent, as shown in 
figures 5 and 6, altho the greater part of its body may be exposed to the sun. Roth 
birds take turns in brooding the eggs or watching the nestling. Occasioidy both 
will be seen standing guard together, in an absurd statuesciue pose, or gazing .sea- 
6. BLUE-FACED BOOBIES, YOUNG. AND EGG 
