30 EXPEDITION TO LAYSAN ISLAND IN 1911. 



inhabited islands should be taken up vigorously and without delay- 

 by the Territorial government. One of the main objects of the 

 writer's recent trip to Laysan was in the interest of the Territory and 

 made for the purpose of studying the habits of these birds on the 

 ground with the foregoing practical object in view. The visit just 

 made and the experiments carried on while en route and on the 

 island resulted in working out simple and practical methods of 

 transportation which, it is believed, if followed up, will make it 

 possible to capture and transport living specimens of these delicate 

 insect-eating species for long journeys at sea without serious loss. 



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