Gill, Douglas E. 
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Kauai 
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got a glimpse of, and later we saw one feeding closeby. Quite a spectacular 
bird. It was getting late around 3; 30 and we decided to go just a short 
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distance further. We went around a bend of the ridge and Larry decided to 
skin the ELepaio while I vent on to see if I could see Ollhai swamp. I 
discovered a group of Creepers (Larry had seen the latter 2 of the above 
list) so I ran back and got Larry. He saw them and then succeeded in shooting 
another Lesser Amakihi. He took them bade to where he was skinning the 
Elepaio. I vent on ahead and I saw nothing but ridges and valleys all 
around, nothing that looked like Alakai Swamp unless this entire area was 
called Alakai Swamp. I vent back to where Larry was skinning and waited 
until he finished. As a mist (rain?) rolled in a beautiful rainbow popped 
up on the side of our ridge. Around 5:30 we finally headed back at a good 
pace and arrived back at the cabin in a shorter time (around 20 minutes) than 
I thought we would. Apparently we had not gone as far as I thought we had. 
I was quite ahead of Larry as apparently he had stopped at every place we had 
seen an KLapalo to see if he could shoot one. While I was waiting some 
fellows came down the trail from the road calling. Apparently they were 
looking for the rest of their party. Larry called me back aways and told 
me he heard some ducks on the stream. We went down to the stream but 
couldn't find them. They very likely were Hawaiian Ducks, after crossing 
the stream we collected three little frogs on the opposite bank. We hiked 
quickly back to the car as it started to rain again. It has been sprinkling 
on and off all day and the road has become a very slick clay. We decided 
■fee better get out of here as fast as possible before the roads became too 
