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North Island: Three seen June 23-24, 1963; one seen Sept. 18, 

 1964; "a few" seen Mar. 17-18, 1965. 



Seal Island: A "few" seen Mar. 18, 1965; two seen Mar. 22, 1967. 



Kittery Island: A "few" seen Mar. 18, 1965; one seen Mar. 22, 

 1967. 



Grass Island: A "few" seen Mar. 19, 1965; two seen Mar. 22, 1967. 

 This species is a regular winter visitor in the Hawaiian Leeward 

 Islands (Bryan and Greenway, 1944), but it has not been reported 

 previously from either Necker or Pearl and Hermes Reef. 



Dotterel Eudromias morinellus 



Dumont captured an immature female dotterel (USNM 494299) in 

 a mist net Sept. 9, 1964, on Green Island, Kure Atoll. The dotterel 

 had been seen flying with flocks of golden plovers for several days 

 before it was collected. No specimens or sight records of dotterels 

 have been reported previously from any of the islands of the Hawaiian 

 Leeward Islands nor from any of the main Hawaiian group. This 

 species breeds in Siberia and has been reported previously as a 

 straggler to Alaska and the northwestern United States. It has been 

 recorded once breeding in Alaska (AOU, 1957). 



Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica baueri 



Wislocki shot a female (USNM 493478) Mar. 11, 1964, on Lisianski 

 Island. On May 9, 1966, Woodward saw two bar-tailed godwits on 

 the southeast beach of Green Island, Kure Atoll. He subsequently 

 collected one of them (USNM 496599), a male molting into nuptial 

 plumage. These godwits have been seen thrice on Laysan by POBSP 

 personnel. One was seen on the west shore of the lagoon Sept. 19, 1964; 

 two were seen foraging together on the east and south beaches during 

 the period Mar. 6-11, 1965; and another was observed Oct. 21, 1966. 

 Specimens of L. I. baueri have been reported previously from Laysan 

 (Rothchild, 1893) and Midway (Fisher, I960) in the Hawaiian Lee- 

 wards, but none have been reported previously from either Kure or 

 Lisianski. The race L. I. baueri breeds in Siberia and northern Alaska 

 (Vaurie, 1965) and winters irregularly in small numbers in central 

 Polynesia. 



Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa 



On Oct. 21, 1966, POBSP personnel saw two marbled godwits feeding 

 in the lagoon at Laysan Island. One of them (USNM 496790) was 

 then collected by Lewis and proved to be an immature male with 

 heavy fat deposits. No sight records of specimens of marbled godwits 



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