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Pater, back at Hawaiian IClag Hotel, more pa^rwcspfc, but ' walking to 
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a inner Jillson, Whiteman and I via It Waikiki Beach at sunset and see 
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there . From other trees on a parkway between lanes of Monsarrat A ye, 
came the pre-r costing noise of at least 100 mynas, quite like their close 
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relative Sturnns vu l g aris , but more varied of voice. During the day they 
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travel nearby always in pairs. 
Late this evening Jills on and I visit Ala Wal canal with lights. 
Besides the species mentioned yesterday at least two others were 
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captured » Also small jellyfish and on the rock wall geckos . Barnacles 
and a species of green crab are plentiful in the shallows while larger 
fish jump out in the middle. On the wall are cockroach- like insects 
over ll/2 inches long. Another insect I observed today were what look 
like pure -black bumble bees. 'They were landing at the bases of the long 
narrow eampanulate flowers as long as they were. 
It is calm and hot tonight after partly cloudy day in which 
clouds built up, but no rain except a few drops fell here. 
Fe bruary 2— About C 650 hours. Sibley, Clapp, Ely, Huber, King and I 
.save on field trip to see Oahu birds not found in Honolulu, he drive through 
the agricultural (sugar cane and piceaple) central valley and find the 
small road which runs over the forest®! mountain shoulder to Waiiaea. 
Whan this becomes impassible to our rented vihicles, we walk. The 
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fbrest below, on either side of our ridge road was a uniform coreaceoue 
green, save for an occasional patch of lighter green of the ohia trees 
which are the mainstay for the flower-feeding birds of the tyepanididae ♦ 
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