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1.8 May, 1967 
Drove this afternoon down themain road and worked 
on Blue faced boobies- see their sheet. Very hot 
and wind luckly was blowing... In evening went 
to work on Frigates along the lagoon road but the 
moon makes them take off and could not catch more 
than two or three. ( actually themoon does not 
make them take off but with themoon light they 
fly readily when apprceched. ) Saw three with my 
paint markes on the. 
SOOTY TERN: birds in the air along the carver way 
and beyond for miles, each time that i stopped 
to work on a bfb there were sooties over me. When 
got to K Site they were on the gorund and some 
eggs had been laid- A very rough estimate of the 
number of birds would be 100,000 and i coulnted 
some 50 eggs in a space of 25 yards, the main 
laying had not occurred yet but the eggs were 
being incubated and those that i broke were fresh 
within a day x or so. . . Expect more will be laid 
very soon. hese birds extend in just a relaively 
small area, from the end of the dakota runway to 
to the K site, an area of approx quarter mile by 
50 yards. Eggs under veg to some extend, rather 
heavy Lepturus and Sida, nofceof it more than foot 
or so high, but heavy growth. Birds between carve: 
way and this site sitting on the gournd in some 
spots, most of them open, old lake beds or excevat 
0 ci places 
LORAKEET:* THIS EVENING WHILE DRIVING TO THE BEACH 
JUST NEAR THE BANAWATER HOLE, SAW TWO LORAKEETS a 
FLYING ACROSS THE ROAD. THIS SITE WAS ABOUT AHLAF 
MILE TOWARD LONDON FROM THE WATER X HOLE AND THE 1 
BIRDS FLEW ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE OCEAN SIDE INT< 
HEAVY COCONUTS AND SCAEVOLA LAND. KLEE FOLLOWED 
BUT COULD NOT FIND THEM. X FLEW VERY CLOSE TO 
GETHER AND LOOK LIKE A PAIR, GAVE CALL SEVERAL 
TIMES AS FLEW OVER. REALLY BRILLIANT BIRDS WITH 
THE RED, GREEN AND BLUE PLUMAGE. WILL HAVE TO 
SEARCH FOR THE.... 
3’. 
SCHREIBER 
CHRISTMAS HAND 
May. b pent the afternoon finding the way from 
carver way to theroad a&ong the south shore and 
once found it is easy fo follow, BAnded oFBalong 
the road as far as M site then turned around. 
WHITE THROATED STORM PETREL: while driving down 
the main road saw one ihs of these flying out to 
sea. It flies very much like a sparrow hawk 
hovers, with legs dangling and very erratic, 
unhurried flight. This bird flew right over the 
rover and got a very good loke at it. then it 
continued on out to sea. 
LORAKEET: spent about two hours looking for them 
in the same place as saw them yesterday and finall 
found them in the area of high palms with fresh 
nuts on the north side of the road near the water 
hole. Heard them calling and when i was still 
about 75 yards away a pair flew out of the top of 
a 60 foot coconut and flew into some scaevola that 
was approx 100 yards away to the east and some 
10 feet tall and quite thinck and covered with 
doddler. Walked towards thes and they then flew, 
again, very close together and calling while in 
the air, through the coconuts and across the road 
but by the time i got theere they were gone and 
did not hear them, it was almost dark so did pot 
follow. CAll is verymuch like the cedar waxwing, 
high and buzzy. 
WArbler; while looking for lorakeet saw some 7 of 
these mostly in Pluchea and in pairs. 
Will johnston and went on a crab huntingOmurdering 
trip with axes 
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