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Hachura, C.D.
1967
Measurements + Nest Description
Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata)
March 12 East Island, French Frigate Shoals
Eggs on bare ground, root in slight depression.
Vegetation, all low: Digitaria, Tribulus, Boerhaavia
(Measurements are in millimeters)
36.5 x 51.70
35.2 x 50.20
36.0 x 51.50
37.0 x 51.80
34.8 x 50.70
37.25 x 50.60
36.6 x 51.20
35.5 x 51.35
34.6 x 46.55
36.4 x 49.80
36.6 x 52.8
34.3 x 54.56
34.6 x 47.20
36.45 x 48.15
37.0x 54.10
36.0x 51.65
37.35 x 56.00
36.3 x 50.15
37.1 x 53.6
36.2 x 52.85
Hachura, C.D.
1967
Egg Measurements
(all measurements in millimeters)
Blue-faced Booby (Sula dactylatra)
14 March Whole-Island FF Sh.
All nests either on beach about 10 feet in from
high water line or on sandy areas in the interior. No
nests had any vegetation in them. All were on
completely bare sand.
Not measured:
AF - 2 eggs - 1
AM - 2 eggs - 11
AF 2 eggs: 48.15 x 67.1
46.6 x 70.5
AM 1 egg + 1 naked chick
AF 1 egg 48 x 76
AF 2 eggs 48 x 71.5
47.9 x 73.6
AF 2 eggs 46.15 x 69.4
44.5 x 65.5
AF 1 egg 47.4 x 72.2
AF 2 eggs 49.35 x 67.15
47.2 x 65.7
AF 1 egg 47.8 x 67.5
AM 1 egg 44.2 x 63.4
AF 1 egg 47.9 x 69.6
AF 1 egg 47.8 x 70.3
AM 1 egg 47.15 x 67.15
AF 2 eggs 49.1 x 70.5
48.4 x 70.4
AM 2 eggs 44.3 x 60.2
46 x 64.9
AF 2 eggs 46.5 x 60.25
48 x 62.45
AM 2 eggs 44.65 x 62.8
44.5 x 61.7
AM 1 egg 45.75 x 63.25