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Ludwig, James P . 
March 2$- -Up after a damn poor bout with the food poisoning. Didn’t 
sleep much at all. Sweated all night and was wringing wet at a.m. 
But Trent around Hana way via Kehli. Pond was very low. We stopped and 
checked a number of nests: 
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1. Mockingbird—three eggs, platform of Keawe sticks lined to grasses. 
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Sea level—eggs ? very spotted to red-brown on aquamarine. Second neat' 1 with 
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three eggs, rethrown spots on white, nest plain cup to no base like 
mainland cardinal nest. 1200 feet elevation. 
2. Large pendulous domed nest—six eggs, all white, very small—seven 
nests in 150 feet diameter. Thought Rieehird was flushed from it. 
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3. Suspended fWe cup nests (2) with three eggs each time. White 
with Brown spoting. 1500 feet Zos ter ops All nests were located 
in the Keawe trees beyond Kehei on the connecting leg of RT 31 around 
the island. 
The Journey around the rest of the island was quite uneventful 
except for seeing large flocks of Rice birds on the dry side. Only two 
White-tailed Tropicbirds seen on wet side In valleys (one over the 
ocean on dry side). 
At Alatt Island (Hamoa Beach) we noted evidence cf Shearwater occupations 
and could see thirty-seven burrows. One bird was seen at the entrance 
to a burrow. 
March 26- -Went around Maul Head today. No eaesdettWs of Shearwaters or 
petrels along this coast but at the west cliff of the Honokohau Valley 
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10 to 20 pr. W. T. tropicbird nesting (While the findings of the 
last two days indicate that the breeding papulation here is very low/j I 
believe that a systematic stu 3 ^ of the feu* thousand to six thousand 
