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anterior tip Mack. 
The 'ouoil is brown and the iris is black." 
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The bird weighed 313 « 3 frrams; culman was 30mm.: 
tarsus42mm. ; middle toe44ron. ; -vang5?iwu There is * 
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Read Elmer Gantrr today. After supper I weighed an^ 
measured Brown Boobies , I am getting tired ox playing • 
•with Booba p..o. T f-i mire T have handled a bn- t 1000 now* i 
. -7 £s> 
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Paul DuMont and I worked on plant aaciiesilui. 
clots all afternoon and after supper I neither and 
measured the Wedgetailed Shearwaters. i 
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saw an immature RTTB sitting on top of the Scaerzola. 
Paul banded xz and threw it into the air, it was not j 
steady on its wings at first but soon I could see an i 
improvement in its fligt. It flew toward the north j 
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-enci OX one .-l. S cyMt±Lu-±. & ir*u*. ■ i-trix jji t/rtux.— 
I am gong banding. Wedge-tailed Shearwaters. 
1 observed an adult Wedge-tailed Shearwater deeding 1 
its young. The chick was emiting a weak snunriir* ; 
while the adult was feeding it, muck like the Laysan j 
.iJ.LaLiuoo, uxic; auLL'idd was eharacllstic ox uhe wed. get ails. 1 
The feeding was simril at* f.n T..- r q.q n ?■ 
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I saw two Grey-backed Terns today. 
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fed^e- ailed Shearwaters brood their eng with it olaced 
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.lest in my study the egg was always in the same spot in ! 
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i slight"depression. One egg was hair harried in the \ 
2 and but the nest was deserted so T don&t know if this 
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