CONTENTS. 



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The need for bird reservations 155 



Number of bird reservations 155 



Birds as carriers of seeds 156 



Rabbits as a menace to vegetation. 157 



The Nutting expedition of 1911 157 



History of Laysan Island 158 



Description of Laysan Island 158 



The land birds of Laysan Island 160 



The sea birds of Laysan Island 161 



Kavages of plume hunters 163 



Protection essential to preservation of reservation and species 164 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATES. 



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 PLATE I. Fig. 1. Laysan albatrosses dancing. Fig. 2. Nesting colony of 



Laysan albatrosses 158 



II. Fig. 1. Man-o'-war birds nesting, Laysan Island. Fig. 2. Colony 



of gray-backed terns, Laysan Island 158 



TEXT FIGURES. 



Fig. 1. Hawaiian Islands Reservation for protection of native birds 156 



2. Bird rookeries of Laysan Island 159 



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