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■birds gathered closely together to roost in the grass plot 
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Ewo nests containing eggs found in the grass plot, ’-'no egg was iaia 
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roan of a grass tussock without other nest material. Ihe embryo from one 
oreserved. 
3 0J9E1 : About 40 inhabit the island. Most of them are not building no v; ana 
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seen to so end the day at sea. At night they come to roost in the grass plot or ou 
stakes at the old Japanese camp. 
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G-ardiner Island . i'hv 22. 1923 : A dozen circled about at daybreak on their way 
froma roost on the island, none seen on snore. 
i'Tlhoa island. Ifov 24-26, 1923 : Seen infrequently . 
June 11-16 : numbered about 3000 pairs. Shese boobies ranged over the entire island 
grouping at times in little colonies and again spreading over broad areas of hill 
slopes. In looking across the valleys their white 'forms shov/ed everywhere at little 
snots. Sheir nests were built on the tops of low spreading shrubs three or four 
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rora the ground and were broad flat structures of small twigs and sticks 2 uO 
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across with a shallow depression in the center line with a few green leaves 
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frora adjacent shrubbery, d'he birds laid but one egg. kany nests were newly 
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ted, others contained eggs from fresh to heavily incubated and young in 
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ranged from newly hatched to half grown. A few bird found nesting sites 
n the crests of the 
ualms (Pritchordia ) 
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■alts were amusing in their movements. As 1 approached they t turned to 
face me with ruffled feathers and reached out constantly with necks fully extended 
s though to strike . T «fhen really threatened they squawked lordly cud flew 
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