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A-nril 27 — This morning we return to Hilo and finally find Lyman Nldols 
in his office * turns out he got his master a in Gams Management at 
Aggies in ’57* Besides school talk, he mentions having seen v. t. 
troplcbirds in Mauna Loa crater. The smaller grouse we saw was probab 
gray frankolin, and the teal we saw undoubtably Garda nay Teal Anas 
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we found picture in Japanese 
book. Says there are stilts in ponds 
Suggests Puu Kanaka leonui, 966 0 feet on northeast flank of Mauna Kea as 
probable nest site fear dark-rumped petrels. So at noon we trade in 
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our Inhale for a Willy* station wagon at the airport from a fat Kanaka 
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W«*d gotten a gat* key and map from Nichole, so ve proceeded up the 
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Mauna Kea Road to Hale Pohaku Pgr. Sta. again, then around the loop 
road at 9000 getting a good look at a Pueo (short -eared owl) at 8800. 
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passing through the Mouflon sheep refuge we came to Kanakaleonui 
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and marked on Nlchol’s map not far below. A couple Hawaiian Fish and 
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Game men irere there and we got to talking with them - turns out they know 
about t/hese birds, but say Harry v<ho’g coming soon knows mere. They 
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saw "'thirty mouflons today. Harry Ferguses comes with three old daughter, 
ce/ s part native, found dark-rumps dead after storm up here in 1959* 
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V ater droppings on rocks, and a burrow where he dug out an egg and 
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returned to find it a chick. Sort of sore and reticent that he didn’t 
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get more credit, thinking they’d not been found for fifty years. 
