ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATES. 



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Plate I. Buildings on Laysan Island 12 



II. Albatross wings piled in old guano shed 12 



III. Nesting colony of Hawaiian terns 16 



IV. Fig. 1. — White terns or love birds. Fig. 2. — Colony of wedge-tailed 



shearwaters I (i 



V. Laysan albatross rookery 16 



VI. Fig. 1. — Christmas Island shearwater on nest. Fig. 2. Red-tailed 



tropic bird with young 16 



VII. Fig. 1.— Blue-faced booby. Fig. 2.— Red-footed booby 20 



VIII. Man-o'-war birds on nests 20 



IX. Fig. 1. — Laysan teal. Fig. 2. — Bristle-thighed curlew. Fig. 3. — 



Laysan rail 20 



TEXT FIOURE. 



Fig. 1. Map of Laysan [aland 14 



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