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Hoeman, Vincent D. 
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to shift among the dark foliage of the roost trees. As we went to 
breakfast shortly later we noted Barred doves, Oeopelia striat a . very 
numerous and tame with a distinctive, off -repeated call. The larger 
Spotted Dove, gtreptopelia chinenals , was also seen, a flock of House 
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Finches, Carpodaeua mexicanue . was noted and House Sparrows, Passer 
domestlcu g . are in their usual sidewalk abundance. While the mynas are 
certainly the most obvious birds as they walk on the ground and make a 
variety of noises from house topsj I later decided house sparrows are 
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more abundant for they are nesting in house eves and on palm leaf- 
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stubs Everywhere. I saw a barred dove carry southing to a leaf stub 
(ne^t material ?) 
Although most of the day had to be spent on the report writing and 
/data compilation, I managed to make a number of short field trips 
y about tovm becoming familiar with the Japanese white-eye, Zosteron s 1 - 
/ .laponica , a distinctive little bird that easily hides among foliage, 
and found my first bird who got here without man's help, a Golden Plover, 
P luvialis domlnica, foraging in the narrow grown lawn of the officers 
club of Fort De. Russy. Somehow less grand than in his breeding plumage 
on the tundra, but his species* precedent for touring to these isles 
i* older than ours. 
The only insect I noted today were a few orange with black marking 
butterflies that appear to be monarehs. Many flowers are abloom. Quite* 
a few plants seem to be closely related to species I*ve known in tropical 
America, probably many are introduced from there. 
