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observations, and those of George Willet, which vere made in March 1913* and 
Hunter (1915) reports his observations made in March 1915* Limited information 
is available from the accounts of several ship wrecks or visits to the 
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in the last century. The ornithological data from the Tanager Expedition, 
•which visited the island in May 1923 , are found primarily in the unpublished 
field notes of Dr. Alexander Wetmore, which he has kindly made available to 
the P03SP. The data from aerial surveys by personnel of the Bureau of Sport 
Fisheries and Wildlife are presented in papers by Kenyon and Rice (1959L 
and Rice and Kenyon (1962). Surveys by personnel of the Livision of Fish 
and Game of the State of Hawaii are reported in 'unpublished manuscripts to 
that agency by Woodside and Kramer ( 1961 ), Kramer and Woodside ( 1961 ), and 
Kramer ( 1963 ). 
Prior to 1963 fifteen species of breeding sea birds and seven species 
of migrants, land birds, or accidentals had been recorded for the island. 
The POBSP has added one species to the list of breeding sea birds and six 
species to the list of migrants or accidentals. The two species of land birds 
formerly reported have not been found. 
The following annotated species accounts include not only all FOBS? 
data but also all known literature references and unpublished material. 
Population estimates and breeding information from Hunter (1915), Wetmore 
(unpub. notes, 1923 ), and all POBSP visits are summarized in Table II, and 
discussed in the text. Population figures are estimates unless stated to 
be actual counts. The breeding data are not adequate to delineate with 
certainty the breeding cycle of each species on Lisianski. Wnen such data 
are available from POBSP studies on Kure Atoll, 300 miles to the northwest, 
they are included in the text under the section on reproduction. Table III 
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