Red-footed boobies, a dozen nesting in ironwoods. 
No brown-vested boobies seen. 
Frigate birds, colonies at N.& S, ends# 
Laysan teal, 11 3een (2 shot) leaving 9* 
Wandering tattlers, 100 or more. 
Bristle-thighed curlew, 150 to 200, 
Turnstone, 5000 to 100QQ along the lagoon beach. 
"Finch" ( Telespiza cantans ) at least 1000 at S.W, 
and around house ruins, 
(These bird observations were made by William F, Coultas, 
during a few hours on Laysan, The bird population probably 
greatly exceeded these estimates,) 
It is likely that the flightless rail, miller bird, and 
honey eater have become extinct. It is doubtful &f the Laysan 
teal win long survive. The flightless rail was taken to 
Midway, but it is doubtful if It win survive there, 
6, References . 
A more extensive account of Laysan Island Is to be 
found in "American Polynesia and the Hawaiian Chain" by 
Edwin H. Bryan, Jr,, published 1942 by the Tongg Publishing 
Co,, Honolulu. It contains an extensive bibliography, which 
included most of the articles dealing with laysan and nearby 
islands. The most extensive account of the bird life is: 
Walter Rothschild, The avifauna of Laysan and the 
neighboring islands. Vol.l, London, 1893. 
Dr.H.H.Schauinsland visited the island in 1896, and ~ 
records his observations in "Drei Monate auf einer 
Koralleninsel", published In Biologische Centralblat, 
vol,19, 1899, and also as a separate little book. 
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The Tanager Expedition, in 1923, made a thorough 
biological survey of the island, Zb. the results having been 
published In bulletins of B.P.Bishop Museum, Honolulu. 
Dr, A, Wetmore was ornithologist of this expedition, and 
he has not produced a report on the birds, probably because 
previous reports were so complete. The plants are discussed 
by Chrlstopherssn and E.L.Caum, Vascular plants of the 
Leeward Islands, Hawaii, B.P.Bishop Museum Bulletin, 81, 1931. 
