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July sTT/' ipperton Island, ohU/ "h*v/« coral atoll iw< £cistfe**n (Pacific Wafers 
\*rUe skip G«*iS-f 0 We 
^(^achorai at 10:55 a.m. in J2 fathoms. ^ftot ashore after some delay 
caused by the necessity of finding a practicable landing place,, 
through the surf alongside a line that Joe Balicki swam in for us. Our time 
was limited, so it was necessary to collect what we could in short order. 
The thirty-two bird sicins obtained here were almost all the result of the Of 
marksmanship of Comdr. Kelley and Mr. Michael ^Reilly, Tkere Ur ere )<>vr o r five 
^pec'tes boaWieSjc flaci Ociw/t’s, s^eci h-»ens in juvenile p i uk, a c^, a nd. sohi^ 
u A number of sand hoppers or amphipods were obtained. At least one \ heft Ima 
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new species is represented. Among the other crustaceans secured were a pair 
of burrowing shrimp, Callianassa . showing well defined color markings in brown 
on their chelae, somet hing n ot ordinarily expected in subterranean, more or 
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less colorless animals. A ^generous samole of the algal gjj^esawf the central 
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lagoon was preserved for the algo legist, it sm has since reported that the 
water in the Clipper ton lagoon is surprisingly fresh, and at most 
frdd Vply slightly brackish, when one coxild well expect the reverse to be true, 
if MflWiy Qfqlp holes Qgcarctnu^ platofttu-S, 
i ? A<xt / sf ~f ew^land cra bs^pfere seen. ^ drove of "wild" pigs we saw 
ranging the atoll must be keeoins theiimumber b. i, l ii*cv t', down to near the 
he keeping theijnumber 
4 fell 
vanishing point. When^Snodgr as s was here in 1898, he remarked that the island 
was so overrun with land crabs that any bird shot for the purpose of making a 
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study skin ituujj. 1 , Iiaca to be picked up immediately or the crabs would rend it 
... _ , appeareol to Quite a nui-nVer of 5 (pi as dlroveJglKey 
to pieces.Xivxust ouT <x very^e Carious eyijfehce Jitl!f« v fcr nofresK Wafer 
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cf/ One cf the young, and .tender, pigs / as it proved to be^ was shot by 
Commander Kelley and presented by him to the President's mess. Mr. Kelley 
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saw ducks on the lagoon, but had no better luck with them than Heller and 
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then, they remained too far away for an effective shot* skinl^fras ’ 
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