Jarvis 
6/15 to 9/14/35 
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f~ ,Vn U 6: (200-800 porpoise seen offshore) 
r (in dication of Frjga te^dau2l.mth.young) 
Aug 8: (State t hey made sep. bird rept.) 
Kne> Aug 19: ( "A Boatswain Martin bird laid an egg inside the beaco n" 
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Aug 22: "A bird never before seen by any.of _us_waa.discovered feeding near 
the shipwreck. It was a small bird measuring about g of a foot in 
length, with a wing extent of slightly less than a foot.”* Its wings and 
tail were brown. Around the neck, unddr the body,a nd a little above 
the tail it was white. Its head was b lack and also it s bill. The' bill 
was cur ved d ownwar d and w as only an inch a nd a hal f long. The foot 
is webbed and of a black color. It kept flying anound us, probably it 
was_jrurious._I n gener al it was a cufce looking thing..." (=v/. T. Storm 
Petrel?) . ~ '— ■ — 
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Aug 28, 1935: "Geor ge also wan dered out i n the fields...as a result 
he filijjlc over ed two new species of the Love teird family! One of “them 
was a_ little smaller tlSn^aT Booby possessing a beautiful plumage of 
a lavender color over the entire body... ItTv® s ~hard to tell the color of 
this bird^ bill and feet be ca use it flew a round and above.. .did not 
alight in ground...There were 25 other little birds'almost the size 
of canaries that possessed, th e same lavender features over the entire 
body . This bigger lavender bird was about 3 or 4 times larger than the 
birds were tam e, h ad black bills and a 
( ) web foot) (Once seen once before on Jul y 24) 
(Xeroxed Shearwater description—Wedge-tail of P.I.r.) 
Sept 1: (Dr. Coman arrives at island on Kinkajou—from Baker and Howland— 
Coman knew birds, gave boy colonists scientific and common names—Captain 
of ship wasConstantine Flink) (Ccmans men on Jarvis were William 
Chadwick and Louis Suares of the Kamehameha School. Depart Jarvis— 
Sept 2, 1935) 
