Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Nine Is.
#1 Brown Body - 16 x 17", bowl 9 1/2 x 9
depression 3", AF incubating
41.4 x 64.65 / 41.9 x 62.0
Construction of driftwood, Scaevola
stems, Tribulus, some grass stems,
feathers, on grad edge of
Scaevola thickets in Tili, Boerhavia + sea Verbenas +
Eragrostis.
#2 On edge of Scaevola, female incubating;
nest very small + mediocre for this
species - consist entirely of a bowl in
a depression bowl 8 1/2 x 9, 1 1/2"
depression, no nest material
root lip of bowl; rest of Scaevola
leaves + stems, Tribulus, grass stems,
1 fresh Scaevola leaf + 1 spig of Tili;
nest in Tili + Boerhavia some feathers
March 28, 1967
nest #2
inside
2 eggs 40.45 x 60.6 / 41.0 x 62.2
Tower overlooking Atoll Coast
1:55 pm.
29 Frigate in flight
85 on Scaevola
Red - f. Body - 64 Red - f. Body
on Scaevola
Red - t. Trap 16 avg central roost
Frigate nest
AM wth.
Brown Body AF 2 eggs on little pile of drift
in middle of dense Scaevola scrubbing. Nest
of Scaevola branches (lateral) Boer hauer
Scaevola leaves (fresh), 1 spig of Tili +
some dried Tili stems
42.35 x 62.95 / 43.25 x 65.6
Nest 2 1/2 x 23", bowl 9", depression 2 3/4"