Hoeman, Vincent D. 
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1964 
Next we drive to Volcanoes National Bark and arrange to go to 
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Keaoi Island tomorrow getting cabin key from rgr. 3, Albright. Nothing 
known of other partidger or mourning doves. 
Bfrck In Hilo we shop, then drive up Saddle Road to look for thrushes 
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at the Kapukae between miles 17 and 18. See none but we do see. In the 
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rain, apapan.es , 1 tvi , amkihl and some Introduced birds, (notes finished 
two days later). 
Larry tries to collect more doves with car down la low country, 
then we explore' Lava Cave at 4.1 miles from origin of highway 20 
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in Hilo, developed by the Lions Club and explored 4-700 feet, we go 
back about 2500 feet together in dripping wet among ofaia roots, then I 
go another 1000 feet alone. Dark by the time I cos® exit so we go to 
the beach beyond our brackish duck lake to sleep. 
April 25 — The pond this morning has our male shoveller and a coot. 
We soon head up to Volcanoes N. P. and up the Mauna Loa strip road to 
6500, where there’s a shelter and the trail sign says 18.5 miles to 
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to their crater shelter. Call up aiaakihis there. See a green pheasant 
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on way down. Next we go around Kilauea Crater to the Halemouman 
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Overlook Wiere we see at least 5 w. t. tropiebirds flying cm the far 
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side. A barren, windy place. We drive on to Kipuka None where a pack 
of cub scouts in&uisetively watch us prepare for our trip. 
With packs we take the 7*2 mile trail down to Halapa shelter seeing 
about 500 goats enroute all of which ran when they saw us. Mostly pure 
black, a few with irregular white cm belly or feet, fewer with brown, 
about four pure brown and two pure gray. One very fine billy had 
widely divergent horns. The kids baa and bleat. Halapa is in a coconut 
