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flies directly to its mate & disgorges a quantity of small fish upon the ground. The female at once eats this & remains sitting. The male remains standing by its mate until the next morning with the possible exception of a short excursion immediately about the Is. When they go out fishing they go 10-25 or 30 miles away as we saw in travelling about here. The birds were sitting on their eggs all about our camp & in the eve I took a lighted candle & went among them & had an amusing experience. The circle of light would show the pairs sitting side by side as I went on & then both birds would leave the nest & run toward me or commence to circle around & in a few yards I had 20 or more of the birds racing about me in a circle some 20 ft across & running with half open wings as though afraid they would not run fast enough. A few ran about my legs, diving between them & brushing against them in a curious fashion. Some of these I took by the neck & tossed away but they would return at once & run about my feet as before. One female went through an amusing performance with a Tropic bird egg placed in her nest whence her own eggs had been removed.  Thousands of men-o-war Birds were nesting in the bushes & the eggs (2) laid on a platform of sticks resting on the branches & in