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istraets from Rodman*# Diary p*5 
* ••Shot cut;ew at forty feet* and gave it to the bay# to stuff** 
* ••Tern# -mm to haw no definite course or procedure* yet they 
sedulously avoid one another* En masse they mrm to be all Is 
swift pell well flight* but watching any individual bird* I 
observe, that it is gliding about in leisurely figure eights 
and spirals* For unaccountable seasons they suddenly all 
snoop to one area with louder cries* then spread out willy* 
nilly#* 1 (this is apparently a description of a panic flight. 
This pius the other note In August Implies a fairly large 
population of what 4* proabiy Sooty tern in Agusufc and' 
September of 1933) 
•Many empty halves of coconut# haw cast up recently too. They 
are not to be confused with the coconut shells seatterred on 
the island presumably by guano workers. *♦ 
•Collected three eggs of the blue*boobie* This blue kind Is 
not near;y so ostentatious about the mating process and seem# 
to take three or four weeks to produce the egg. These were the 
first eggs 1 haw netted fr-'taa a large group on fledgling 
flats,** (Reference to Red-footed Booby with blue biIlf) 
•doted sooty-blue bird much like pigeon, for fist time** 
(Blue-gray Noddy I?) 
•Did not find any frigates nesting today (in one section of the 
island. There are about ten fledglings scattered ar >und that 
never seem to get any bigger* listed a few boobies in the •purls 
natural!bus** of infancy* Most of the fat downy ones, that waddled 
with a drollbaby awkwardness, only a month ago, Jpaw grown as 
if »y magic, into slightly austere youngsters with tawny feathers, 
that ^11 Soon turn to the whits of adults* (Implying similar 
slue-face cycle m Baker to that on lowland.).last fledlings 
find a pal or two, or join a large group of celibates, who sit 
aroundmost of the day it seems, on drift logs, or piles of 
Coral. •Rats kept me awake daaa dat g for the first night in weeks. 
They as well as mice, and various crabs, are more predatory during 
the darkest part of the moon. * •...contrary to what I thought 
a frigate may alight in the ocean several times in a short while,, 
without getting soaked.** ‘ ■ - ■ * 
•Pigweed and all the grasses are withering rapidly. 1 * 
**fi»c lemma tree withered. My last vine is in rigor mortis and only 
a few turnips, and the sweet potatoes stiIlfloutish with doubtful, 
vigor in the cisterns.** "Flies have increased la the few days of 
higa tl- as which have tossed up crabs, and fish 
Seltested another rat in addition to one collected earlier. 
Caught a lisard which from the description of the eyes cm# 
Sained in mornins- 
gecko. 
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