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f e checked the mice and walked around the island 
as usual. fe saw three RT!I3 fly over the island. 
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signal build in ft read in the book 11 Basic Problems 
and Technicued in Randc'Tteasearch 11 tryme to" 
yet seme better idea ho' to man and study the plants on 
the island, I picked up several ideas and Doc also 
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written* I am going to try to determine how much 
moisture the soil can hc-]d on the is land , - 
In the even in °* we banded 4 fed-re-tailed Shearwater 
chicks and two Co mon Coddle chicks. . The VT T ere 
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fe set the mouse traos all day and checked t-em *p 
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the traos all night but over sleet one oeriod so we will 
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We forgot to set the mouse traos last night. 
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for recreation and did as little as oos$ible > read and 
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Thedoys killed a vouhm feci me-tailed Shearwater. 
P T e rar t>»o mon.se tea ns all day e T rnr two hoir-s and 
then ran them all hi lit. gad what a miserable night* 
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each time® One thiny became evident after running the 
traps all tight (it is o ie hell of a way to make a livir- 
The cmice are active earlv in the evening and at each 
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