===========+=========+=====+=========+=======+========+======== | | | | | Full | LOCATION | Sex | No. | Wing | Tail | culmen | Tarsus -----------+---------+-----+---------+-------+--------+-------- Yap, Truk | males | 6 | 132 | 43 | 56 | 44 | | | 130-134 | 41-47 | 54-59 | 42-47 | | | | | | Guam | males | 11 | 134 | 47 | 57 | 46 | | | 127-138 | 45-50 | 55-60 | 45-47 | | | | | | Guam | females | 10 | 130 | 46 | 57 | 45 | | | 127-134 | 44-49 | 55-59 | 43-47 -----------+---------+-----+---------+-------+--------+-------- _Weights._--The author (1948: 44) records the weights of eight adult males from Guam as 82-103 (92) and eight adult females from Guam as 84-109 (95). _Specimens examined._--Total number, 69 (34 males, 27 females, 8 unsexed), as follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Saipan, 1 (Sept. 30)--Tinian, 1 (Oct. 13)--Guam, 29 (May 16, June 4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 18, 19, July 10, 16, 18, 24, 27, Aug. 4); AMNH--Saipan, 1 (Aug. 6)--Tinian, 3 (Sept. 13)--Guam, 14 (Feb. 1, Mar. 13, 29, July 11, 13, 25, Aug. 1, 7, 13, Sept. 4, 10, Dec. 8); Palau Islands, AMNH--exact locality not given, 6 (Nov. 19, 21, 23, 25, Dec. 1, 18); Caroline Islands, USNM--Truk, 1 (Feb. 16); AMNH--Yap, 1 (not dated)--Truk, 12 (Feb. 9, Mar. 5, 17, May 7, June 13, 14, 15, Oct. 3, Nov. 1, 5, Dec. 20). _Nesting._--The author (1948:44) records a nest found by the NAMRU2 party near Achang Bay on Guam on June 6, 1945. It was found in a cane thicket at the edge of a fallow rice paddy, approximately four feet from the ground and was constructed of about three quarts of reeds and cane. Two eggs found in the nest are oval, white with a greenish cast and measure 33 by 24 and 34 by 24. On February 1, 1945, the writer found two recently occupied nests of the Chinese Least Bittern at Oca Point, Guam. These nests were in dense inkberry brush approximately five feet above the ground. The area was not marshy, the nearest water being at the beach some 300 yards away. Nearby one of the nests was found a young bittern, which apparently had only recently left the nest. The pin feathers were growing. A parent bird remained in the vicinity with the young bird until it left the area after March 9.