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all over the interior of the island. These crabs ere only active at 
night, and ap arently do not come out of their "burrows Into the sun. 
V On the east "beach, where the ru'ble Is piled conspicuously at the 
high water mark and the rock flats are more expasslve, are many long- 
legged crabs I would term spider crabs. They msy be seen during the day- 
time, but seen to be most active at dugk. Also on the beach are pale 
"ghost" crabs and a maroon crab about 5 inches total length which dig 
burrows in the hard sand down near tie water. There are also many 
smaller size hermit crabs on the island. 
There are e large number of skinks, probably Eumeces . on the 
island. They are all over the island, along the be-ch and in the 
interior, and are common around the rocky areas, the rock walls and 
the old buildings. They 4use the burrows of the gray-brown nocturnal 
crab and also hide under rocks and building debrles. Blnion found 
some adults with eggs under a lo^ in the inferior of the island. 
There are geckos around the buildings, end also in the air- 
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plane wrckage down on the beach, which may mean that they are elsewhere 
on the island also. 
I collected a species of geckos and skinks today. 
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In wandering about on the island we hav® now found 4 cat skuls in 
one piece in the ravines, 8/in the metel building, one in a stone build- 
ing, a kitten in a vel , and 2 we*-*, the lighthouse. These animals had 
been dead for different legths of time, as indicated by the we thering 
of the skull, especially the four together in the ravines. It is interest¬ 
ing to speculate how long these cats way have been here, end how they have 
survived in the he-t and lack of fresh water. The stomachs we have 
