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one live and one dead pup in March 1965 ^ seven in March 1964 > and 
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h 1965 . One was seen in August 196 ^. 
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pupping season on Kure Atoll, 300 miles to the northwest, extend. 
ron mid-February to early June. The gestation period is unknown. 
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pean Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) 
Current Status : Extinct. 
Prior Records : Rabbits were evidently introduced to Lisianski in 1903. 
This was shortly after their introduction to Laysan by Max Schlemmer, the 
manager of the guano station there. Alfred M. Bailey (1952 and 1956; and 
George Willett visited the island briefly in March 1913• They found that 
it was rapidly being turned into a desert by the depredations of the 
multiplying rabbits. When Carl Elschner (op. cit .) visited the island 
fly in September 191^- he found it ‘‘'dreary and desolate" with the only 
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vegetation a single patch of tobacco which had been set out near the house 
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chlemmer, and two sickly Ipomoea plants. Very few live rabbits were 
found, but the total destruction of the vegetation seriously threatened 
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j existence of the remaining birds. When the Tanager Expedition arrived 
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in lay 1923 the rabbits were dead, having destroyed their food source ana 
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•elves in the ultimate process (Wet more, 1925). 
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Status: Extinct 
Records: Mo living animals remain on Lisianski today, and there are 
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no specimens of an animal vaguely, but quite vividly, reported from the 
island in the last century. 
