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commanding officer of United States Naval Medical Research Unit 

 No. 2, and Capt. James J. Sapero, M(C), USN, formerly executive 

 officer of the Unit. Thanks are owed Commander Francis N. 

 Schwentker, M(C), USNR, also a former executive officer, espe- 

 cially for help in procuring collecting equipment. I am indebted to 

 Lt. Commander David H. Johnson, H(S), USNR, then officer in 

 charge of the Laboratory of Mammalogy, and to co-workers in the 

 laboratory: pharmacist's mates Odis A. Muennink, L. P. McElroy, 

 Charles O. Davison, Merle H. Markley, and Walter L. Necker, whose 

 collections and observations have made this report possible. The 

 help given by Lt. G. W. Wharton, Jr., H(S), USNR, and Lt. (jg) 

 A. B. Hardcastle, H(S), USNR, and their staff of the Laboratory 

 of Acarology is greatly appreciated. I am very grateful also to the 

 many service people who by their interest and cooperation helped to 

 make our field trips successful ; these include Harold LeRoy Wilson, 

 Joe T. Marshall, Jr., Charles G. Sibley, W. J. Beecher, John E. 

 Chattin, John M. Fritts, R. K. Carver, Bernard V. Travis, George 

 S. Mirick, E. W. Coleman, Wilfred Crabb, T. B. Murray, C. K. 

 Dorsey, George Hensel, Louis Posekany, C. L. Harnage, Wilbur G. 

 Downs, and many others. I wish to thank Rear Adm. H. W. Smith, 

 M(C), USN Ret., in charge of the Research Division, Bureau of 

 Medicine and Surgery, United States Navy, under whose direction 

 the report was written, and Lt. Commander Mildred R. Lewis, 

 H(W), USNR, and Yeoman Third Class Dolores Kunreuther for 

 their help in preparing the manuscript in final form. 



The writer is indebted to Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, for the opportunity to work and utilize 

 the collections at the United States National Museum. I am very 

 grateful to Dr. Herbert Friedmann and H. G. Deignan of the Division 

 of Birds, U. S. National Museum, for their generous help and advice 

 in preparing this report. I wish to thank also Dr. Ernst Mayr and 

 Dean Amadon of the American Museum of Natural History for the 

 opportunity of examining specimens in their charge. Lastly, I wish to 

 acknowledge the help of Stevens Tabone in tlie preparation of some 

 of the maps. 



LIST OF BIRDS 



Since collections were made at a number of localities, it seems 

 advisable to have separate lists for the different areas. The map. 

 figure I, shows the islands visited by field parties. Where applicable. 



