July 27, 1930, Sunday. , 
#3^-30. 
Spent about an hour and then 15 minutes more sitting on the bottom looking 
at crab holes in broken coral (small fragment zone). Saw several hole-building 
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fish, which excavated their pits by bringing up a mouthful of sand and blowing 
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it out on the circular heap surrounding opening; were but momentarily affected 
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by my presence and soon went back to work. Saw several crabs in burrows 
(mouths of tunnels) but caught more after hours watching and occasional try. 
Hose did not sfsrarpiiK comfortably reach to several I thought I could get. 
Came up after hour or 55 minutes, moved boat over and by getting close 
scared little brown-fingered Xanthid into his hole. He had been feeding on 
some junk near hole; it took him nearly entire 15 minutes I was on bottom 
to come out and feed again, when I shoved handle of forceps down behind him 
(I had it closed and poised for just such an eventuality). Proved to be ? a 
little Micropanope. 
There was a little slender fish, with large brown bulging eyes, that 
came out of same hole to look around at about half-time, but saw him only the 
once. Many tiny Xanthids walked around among rocks (tiny, rough coral pebbles) 
digging in and under, lifting, heaving, and shoving about lumps several times 
their bulk, and sinking down out of sight every time I got near, so that, 
under hood, I could not see well enough to pick them out from among lumps 
with forceps. Got two Clibanarius tricolor and one little white (coral sand) 
grey hermit with few faint transverse hazel to tawny markings on legs. 
Thought I had another tiny grey hermit in tiniest of four shells, but do not 
find evidence of it in shell as I examine dish. 
