Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 124 1968 Number 3640 



New Records of Birds 

 from the Hawaiian Leeward Islands * 



By Roger B. Clapp and Paul W. Woodward 



In the spring of 1963 the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program 

 (POBSP) of the Smithsonian Institution began periodic surveys of the 

 islands of the Central Pacific between latitudes 30° N and 10° S and 

 between longitudes 150° and 180° W. The surveys were designed to 

 amass varied and detailed data on the biota of the area in order that a 

 much more complete understanding of its nature might be developed 

 than was previously possible. One of the Program goals was simply 

 to discover what birds occurred on the different islands and to de- 

 termine more precisely their exact status on each island. (For a more 

 thorough discussion of POBSP aims and objectives, see Humphrey, 

 1965.) 



From February 1963 through March 1967 POBSP field workers or 

 research teams participated in 18 expeditions to one or more of the 

 Hawaiian Leeward Islands and made biological surveys of them for 

 periods of from one to six days. For much of the entire period a per- 

 manent field station was operated on Kure Atoll, and three more 

 extended surveys, each of slightly more than a month's duration, 

 were made on French Frigate Shoals. 



As one result of these surveys, a great many new distributional 

 records were obtained. This paper presents new and unusual records of 



1 Paper No. 19, Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program. 



2 Clapp, Research Curator; Woodward, Research Assistant: POBSP, Depart- 

 ment of Vertebrate Zoology. 



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