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Wirt®, W. March 
1965 MS’ 
and ©11 ®ay be from a ship wreck as the one Indicates. 
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At the northeast side of the island Is a group of 8 or 10 build¬ 
ings which seem to be the nucleus of the military occupation during 
the second World War. Everything is fn ruins, barracks, shops, garages w'fch 
vehicles and the like. There are the ruins of wooden frame buildings 
scattered around the perimeter of the island, and many earthern forti¬ 
fications also. The rest of the island is generally scattered with miltary 
rubble; landing craft, bomber remains, corrigsted landing boats, hundreds 
of metal drums, helmits, vehicles, and other rusted and rotting gear. 
The bird life of the island is almost nonexistent. It does appear 
that some frigates or boobies may nest in and about the collapsing buildings 
at the HE end, as there are numerous nests, there. None are active now. 
There are graves stains on many of the teller projections about the island, 
perhaps also from frigates. There is a colony of perhaps 150 common noddies 
on a small island in an artificial pond left at the east side of the island 
below the quenset huts. I counted birds as I walked the island this 
morning, from 080 to 1200. Totljas include 28 golden plovers, 3 in 
breeding plumege; 3 masked boobies (in the air) plus 2 seen on the ground 
behind the camp when I go? up this mot-mug , one brown booby flying 
over the north beech; 6 ruddy turnstones and 3 wandering tatlers on the 
rock flats; about 150 noddies and 20 gray-back terns in the artificial 
pool on the island; end a 2 frigates in the fir. I probably missed 
shorebirds along the flats end some plovers inland. This afternoon we saw 
10 frigates and one tropicbird (RT) flying over the island. I found 2 
tropicbird skulls near one of the collapsed frame buildings. We collected 
5 more cats today, and have seen at least 5 others. All but one have been 
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