A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) : physical features and geology / by Charles W. Andrews / with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors.

  • British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology
Date:
1900
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Credit: A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) : physical features and geology / by Charles W. Andrews / with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18. Sula piscatrix. Sula piscatrix (Linn.), Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1887, p. 516; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi, p. 432 (1898) ; Sharpe, Handl. B., i, p. 237. No. 94, 9 imm. Flying Fish Cove. \_Sula piscatrix is very common all round the coast. Builds nest of sticks in high trees. Begins to breed about January, and there are great numbers of young birds in grey plumage in October.— C. W. A.] Sub-Order PHAETHON TES. 19. Phaethon rubricauda. Phaethon phcenicurus, Gm. : Lister, B.Z.S., 1888, p. 529. Phaethon rubricauda\ Bodd. : Ogilvie Grant, Cat. 13. Brit. Mus., xxvi, p. 451 (1898); Sharpe, Handl. B., i, p. 238 (1899). No. 14, ad. Flying Fish Cove, August, 1897. a, b, S 9 ad. Flying Fish Cove. No. 15, 9 juv. Flying Fish Cove, August, 1897. c, 9 acb Flying Fish Cove, August, 1897. “ Taken on nest with No. 15.” (I, (J ad. Flying Fish Cove, (March 21, 1898. Taken from nest in hole of cliff. [The habits of the white Tropic Bird are much like those of the yellow one, but it seems to nest almost exclusively in holes in the cliffs, and I never saw it flying among the trees. The colour of the young bird is exactly like that of the other species.— C. W. A.] 20. Phaethon fulvus. (Plate III.) Phaethonflavirostris (nec Brandt), Lister, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 528. Phaethon fulvus, Brandt: Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., xxvi, p. 455 (1898). No. 38, (J ad. Flying Fish Cove, August 28, 1897. No. 41, 9 ad. Flying Fish Cove, August 30, 1897. No. 47, 9 juv. Flying Fish Cove, September 20, 1897. “Just beginning to fly.” Nos. 67, 69, 9 ad. Flying Fish Cove, November 19, 1897. No. 68, (J ad. Flying Fish Cove, November 19, 1897. a, b, (J 9 ad. Flying Fish Cove. (December 26, 1897. There appears to be no difference in the colour of the sexes, and the orange tint is equally well developed in both the male and female. The young bird, however, shows no orange in the plumage, but is white, spotted on the head and barred on the back with black; the inner secondaries with black longitudinal markings of irregular shape on the outer web ; the primaries and a few of