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equipment into the breezeway to make room for an incoming con¬ 
struction crei:* This sort of thing is difficult and upsets most 
of our routines of work; Unless we can gcj lab space to 
worn in while this crew is here, we are going to have a lot of 
frozen birds and rats to send bad 
tie to do on the many rainy days* as nseu 
building badly. In the afternoon made a tour or the isi.ana in 
the truck and shot a Yelloulegs-like bird which turned out to 
tattler in worn plumage. Tattler 5 s call sounds very much like 
the Yellowlegs, and unle 0 S Gil© ladder-back can be seen, a 
yeliowiegs-like bird in size and voice and general color with 
yellowlegs is likely not a yellowlegs. The ladderback is a good 
character, and we need a specimen to be absolutely positive that 
this birds is here. Also got a Noddy with a broken wing, and a 
dead Bonin Petrel on the beach; Skeletonized the petrel and skin 
ned one of the several noddys colected an the last two days<» 
10-21-63 
/ x Up this Ail to find that we had to again consolidate our 
equipment to make more room for the construction crew. In 
essence, we now have no lab space at all and the construction 
crew plans to be hero at least a month - we now find out, and 
perhaps until Christmas. This is not a pleasing position. In 
the afternoon I spent nearly two hours lecturing the pilots and 
crew of the transport on the values of our work and showing them 
some of the birds here. They were very interested and hopefully 
will carry back some of ours* and their own enthusiasm to the :• 
headquarters of the 14 C.G. District in Honolulu. During the past 
two weeks I havo boon active skeletonizing by dermestids most 
of the skeletons that we have taken, and the results are goocu 
The native dermestids here do every bit as good a job on these 
skeletons as do the ones which I have used in Ann Arbor, and 
I expect to ship back finished skeletons in December rather 
the partly spoiled bodys which we would otherwise have to send 
in. We baited the Eat traps again in the afternoon to sta; ,J ~ 
Bill on his second period of weekly trapping, hi z. 
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a Golden Plover and an immature Brown Booby in one 
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fields with broken wings, apparently again from collisions 
with guy wires. I froze the booby, and amputated the gangrenous 
wing of the plover and released him; I expect the plover will 
survive here as a permanent resident, much in the same status 
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