_Remarks._--The Palaus mark the northernmost point of range of the
Little Pied Cormorant. It does not occur in the Philippines and must
have reached Palau from the New Guinea region. It is unknown at Yap and
other "high" islands in the Carolines. A sight record of this species at
Pagan in the northern Marianas, made by Orii and reported in the
Hand-list of Japanese Birds (Hachisuka _et al._, 1942:207), may be
questioned. Amadon (1942:1) has studied the races of this species and
points out that there is little geographic variation in the species; it
is divisible into three subspecies. One of these is confined to New
Zealand. Another occurs only on Rennell Island, Solomons. The six
specimens taken by the NAMRU2 party at Peleliu included only two adults,
whose measurements are within the range of those studied by Amadon.
The NAMRU2 party found the birds numerously in the southern Palaus in
1945. Birds were concentrated in the areas of mangrove swamp and on the
tidal flats. In August and September, they were observed frequently in
groups of 10 to 15, either sitting on the ground or perched on low
mangroves or dead snags sunning themselves. Coultas (field notes)
received reports that they nested at a freshwater lake on the "main
island" (Babelthuap?)
Ripley (1948) reports the occurrence of "about a dozen anhingas
(presumably _Anhinga melanogaster_)" at Babelthuap on 12 November 1946.
=Fregata minor minor= (Gmelin)
Pacific Man-o'-War
_Pelecanus minor_ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 572. (No
type locality = Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.)
_Pelecanus aquila?_ Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. "Uranie," Zool., 1824,
p. 154 (Carolines).
_Pelecanus aquilus?_ Lesson, Man. d'Ornith., 2, 1828, p. 354
(Carolines).
_Atagen aquilus_ Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859,
p. 61 (Ladrone or Marian Islands).
_Tachypetes aquila_ Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 577
(Ruk); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p. 11 (Ruk); Prowazek, Die
deutschen Marianen, 1913, p. 100 (Marianen).
_Tachypetes aquilus_ Finsch, Ibis, 1880, p. 333 (Taluit); _idem_,
Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, pp. 296, 310 (Ponapé, Kuschai); _idem_,
Ibis, 1881, pp. 109, 115 (Kuschai, Ponapé); Schmeltz and Krause,
Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, pp. 299, 353 (Mortlock, Ruk).
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