CLARK: LESSER ANTILLEAN BIRDS. 
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The egg of the Red-billecl Tropic-bird is deposited in a hole in a 
cliff or under some projecting ledge or rock, and is light purplish in 
color, minutely sprinkled with neutral tint and claret brown. 
Sula cyanops (Sundew). Blue-faced Booby. — Occurs spar¬ 
ingly on Kick-’em-Jenny, and probably also at Battowia. The eggs 
are uniform dull white. 
Sula leucogastra (Bodd.). Booby; Fou. — Abundant, ex¬ 
cept in the vicinity of Barbados. This bird is always to be found 
along the leeward coast of St. Vincent, where some of them may 
usually be seen toward evening perched on the cliffs, where they 
spend the night. The majority, however, begin to fly down the 
coast at about three in the afternoon, making for Battowia, which 
island is the favorite roosting place of all the sea birds in this 
region. 
These birds are usually seen in little companies of three to eight, 
often containing one or more individuals of other species, most com¬ 
monly S. piscator. Hundreds of boobies, mainly of this species, 
nest at Battowia and Kick-’em-Jenny, and there is said to be a large 
colony on Little Tobago (off Petit Martinique). 
The eggs are one or two in number, dull greenish blue, and are 
laid in a coarse nest, placed usually in low trees (often several on 
one tree) or on the ground. The breeding season is from February 
to Maw 
Sula piscator (Linn.). White Booby; Fou Blanc; White¬ 
tailed Booby. — The White Booby is often seen flying about the 
channel between St. Vincent and Bequia, and occasionally about 
the leeward coast of St. Vincent, in company with others of the 
genus. It is said to breed commonly on Battowia, toward which 
island it may be seen making its way every evening to roost. It 
nests in numbers on Kick-’em-Jenny, and is sometimes seen about 
the islands in that vicinity, and along the coasts of Grenada. 
The plumage in which the bird is brown, with the exception of 
the tail and upper and under tail coverts, which are white, is more 
common here than the white form, and individuals of this color are 
often seen in little companies by themselves, or with white adults, 
or with Common Boobies (/Sulci leucogastra ). 
The nest, like that of 8. leucogastra is a loose structure, usually 
placed on low trees or bushes ; eggs one or two, dull greenish. 
