No.SexWingTailTarsusCulmen
57,55226296104127
86,48025898100131
86,4812509884105

Sula dactylatra personata Gould.

Five adults, both sexes, Tubbataba Reef, Sulu Sea, August, 1913.

The Blue-faced Booby, which breeds in the Tubbataba Reef in the Sulu Sea is indistinguishable, so far as I can see, from the Australian form.

The color of the bill and feet was not noted on the labels of Gov. Forbes's birds; in the dry specimens the bill is pale yellow and the feet are dull greenish black.

Measurements.

No.SexWingTailTarsusCulmen at
Base
Width of
Culmen
64,611♂ ad.4181905910130
64,614♂ ad.398190599930
64,616♂ ad.4051845710028
64,612♀ ad.4201836110229
64,613♀ ad.4241855910328

Fregata minor minor (Gmelin).

Six specimens, two adult males in full breeding plumage, three adult females and one immature male, from Cavilli and Bancoran Islands, Sulu Sea, March and September.

I follow Rothschild in restricting Gmelin's name minor to the bird of the eastern Indian Ocean, north Australia etc. (= F. minor listeri Mathews), and with little doubt refer to this form the Philippine Frigate.