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¥e Inndl at Hilo at 0855,’ rent, a car, and issadiaiely , see mynahs 
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rockdoves, and house sparrows in that order, "but soon golden plover, 
house finches and spotted doves - also mongeese very plentifully. 
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We grocery shop in town and locate Mr. and lira. Robert I. Baldwin 
through the city library. Menfcers of a now-defunct bird club, they tell 
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us much about the local birds and mention a gull with dark bill, legs, 
feet and band across tall, light undeer and gray mantle that was here 
this winter at pond south of airport. 
Next we try to get hold of Hawaiian Fish and (kassiaan in town, then 
up at the Pohakuloa Statical on the Saddle Road between the high peaks 
without success but see many skylarks and hear the Hawaiian thrush. 
Going on over the other side near Wakil we collect a male house finch 
d.o.r., (field I/o. 065 $). Left testis 6 by 5-5 cun See cock then ring- 
necked pheasant in open country and ! te:" highway 19 back to Hilo 
along windward coast, Larry collecting speeding ticket along way 
This afternoon we drive in rain to Hawaiian Volcanoes Bat. Bark 
Hg. where we talk to chief naturalist Dwl#rt L. Hamilton, 19^9 Colo. 
A and M. (Seed . , who gives us some excellent leads on reaching Mauna 
Loa crater and the offshore island of Keaoi and presents us a copy of 1 
Bumaire’s Birds of the Bat . Barks of Hawaii . At on overlook point by 
K jla uea Crater Larry kins a mongoose we’d picked up d.o.r. earlier (Bo. 0660) 
and we return to Hilo and talk to Ernest Kasaka of Haw. Fish and Game. 
He gives us some minor leads on dark-rumped petrels on Mauna Kea. 
