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Over 50 bird species include the world's second largest colony (25-30,000) of masked boobies Sula granti (VU), as well as the endangered swallowtailed gull Creagrus furcatus (EN), the Galapagos petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia (CR), and the peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, Elliot's storm petrel Oceanites gracilis, Hornby's storm petrel Oceanodroma hornbyi, magnificent and greater frigate birds Fregata magnificens and F. minor.
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A local historian writing in 1853 remembered them as the motliest people in the world: the men wore everything from slouch hats, to short-waisted frocks, to swallowtailed dress coats, to double-breasted jackets, to surtouts, to bang-ups, to Spanish wrappers, to serapes, to bear skins when women started arriving in number, the men began to tone it up a little.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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A local historian writing in 1853 remembered them as the motliest people in the world: the men wore everything from slouch hats, to short-waisted frocks, to swallowtailed dress coats, to double-breasted jackets, to surtouts, to bang-ups, to Spanish wrappers, to serapes, to bear skins when women started arriving in number, the men began to tone it up a little.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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"The images for 'To Lay Me Down' were inspired at Hampstead Heath (the original title to the song) the day before - lying on the grass and clover on a day of swallowtailed clouds, across from Jack Straw's Castle, reunited with the girlfriend of my youth after a long separation."
The WELL: To Lay Me Down Robert Hunter 2004
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One of them carried the tricolour guidon, though the swallowtailed flag was now half obscured by a dirty white shirt that had been impaled on the guidon's lance head.
Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995
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