JAJ-LICL? I01IS i'llOM SIS UUPIBLISHSD SffiCES ACCOUF S OF A. ’GTMOHE 
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holes dug Iso a 
/Tihoa Island. June 11-16. 1923 : Both male and female may he found in the nest. 
Some have eggs, others nothing. I found one nest containing a young 'bird in gray 
down ah out a week old which I collected. It regurgitated a quantity of oily 
fluid and bright orange in color when killed. 
hjnm Island, french frigate Shoals, dune 22- 23, 192 J_: Two pairs seen. 
Johnston Island, duly 10-19. 1923 : There are two small colonies on the island, 
where these birds congregate amid the wedge tailed shearwaters and have nests in 
shallow depth in the sandy soil. Bering the day all are hidden under¬ 
ground hut at dark they creep out and remain active all night. Adults are calling 
and caressing one another though all have la rge young molting into first plumage. 
These squirm and bite when handled and utter a curious call cOQ (given with 
expiration of breath) 00—00 (made ax breath is inhaled.) The call is line that 01 
the adult £h. cmeatus . At dark the young creep out of their holes and remain in 
the open but seek shelter either in heavy grass or underground when the sun is 
one colony on Sand Island, 
some wear in plumage. 
;he adults is a. curious crowing call co.o-co_o-oo.-oo- aqq hoc. haw , 
first part drawn out and the last given rapidly. They are especially vociferous at 
daybreak in the morning and for an hour after. About 300 on Johnston Island, about 
the 
adult 
on 
the 
open but 
s< 
high. There 
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Adults show 
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of 
first pa 
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day 
break in 
th 
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on Sand 
is 
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<3 Island, 
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July BO. 1923 - A n ir taken on Peake Island in an open growth of 
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Tournefortia near the center of the island. 
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