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Here we soon spotted apapanes , Himatolne sanguines, my first endemic 
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native. These bright red birds make lots of noise, but at first they 
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were hard to pick out among the thick foliage. A bit earlier we'd 
. called Hill Robins, he ot hr lx lute a to us and heard the secretive Chinese 
thrush, OaxTuIax canorus . On up where some eucalyptus wte abloom we 
saw the Amakihi, hoxops vlrena , some white-eyes, and at the highest 
point we visited, two Elepaios, Ghag tempts aandwichenoia . A Hamas 1 
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believed to be a mongoose was seen briefly. Man seems to use this 
road very little, though two jeeploads of men resembling what we've 
heard of Castro's guerillas passed us there in "the Sierra." 
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Hext all of us except Ely, King, w ent to an area of f fallow 
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fields and sugar cane residue with two dry or nearly-dry ponds at the 
• head of the Waipio Peninsula in Pearl Harbor. Rleeblrds, Lonehura 
pu nctulata , were numerous. Our Virginia Cardinal, Richnondena cardlnalis , 
gave its characteristic call from the brush and none were seen as were 
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a few Eraxilian cardinals. In the open skylarks , Alauda arvensls, soared 
- - and sang and we flushed cock then Ring-necked pheasant Fnaslanus eolchicus 
seemingly pure form. A short -eared owl. Agio flammeus, was flushed ' 
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from the grass and at the little pond about thirty shovelers. Spatula 
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clypeata , half a dozen black-necked stilts, Himentopus uexlcanu s , 
and two American coot, Ful l c a am er icanua . Big flocks of black-headed 
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raaniakins , , were seen in the grass . There were cattle 
egrets nearby. Several dried up dead toads were seen and one live one, 
greenish brown with yellow sides, k or 5 inches long. Beck to Honolulu 
by noon. 
