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Sundell, R, A. 
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Wandering Tattlers were seen ©long the causeway (one just 
outside the barracks and the other east of the signal building). 
Mac MoConnaughey reported at least sis Fairy Terns 
on Johnston. ' 
Rbvgmber IS- -Mae HcConnaughey reported seeing a sparrow-like bird fly 
oyer his head early in the evening flying along the causeway headed for 
the bird colony. 
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lately vent with him and we located the bird 
at once flushing it from the ground in the hunch grass just after leaving 
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the causeway. The bird wag probably an Asiatic species of lark. It 
was the size of a large sparrow and predominantly brownish streaked 
on the hack and wings and also on at least part of the breast (upper 
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half). There were reather pronounced white patches along the outer 
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edges of the tail and it is quite likely that the bird had a medium-sized 
crest. The bird flex with an undulating £Light but was extremely wary 
and impossible to approach. When flushed the bird gave a single short, 
musical call note. Mac got Holmes who brought the gun but the bird 
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could not be approached. An Intensive search of the upper end of the 
island had to be abandoned at dusk. The bird could have been hiding 
in the gunehgraas or it might have flown across the Johnston Island. 
Five plus Fairy Terns were observed on Johnston Island at about 
3:50 p. m. It appears that the birds usually present during the mid- 
afternoons and frequently early in the evening hut they are often absent 
(at sea feeding?) at other times of the day. 
-An intensive search of the entire bird colony was conducted 
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for/the unidentified passerine seen last night. A grid area was meed 
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