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EXTRACTIONS FROM THE UNPUBLISHED SPECIES ACCOUNTS OF A. WETMORE 
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May 9, 1925. Sick turnstone lies prostrate with head prostrate, "barely breathing. 
May 13^ 1923. Three or four thousand present on the island. Brine shrimp at 
the lagoon form attractive food. 
Lisiansky Island , May 16, 1923 . Four seen. 
May IX, 1923 . Two 
May 19 , 1923 . Three or four noted. 
Gardiner Island, May 21, 1923. A flock of fifteen on the rocks near the water. One 
killed had just eaten a tern's egg. 
Nihoa Island , May 24, 1923 . Two on ledges below the western cliffs. 
June ll-l6, 1923 . One or two seen daily on the rocks of Adams Bay. Two seen 
resting on a cairn on Millers Peak 900 feet above the sea. 
Necker Island , June 17-19, 1923. One or two seen daily. 
June 20, 1923 . A small taken had small sexual organs. About 20 seen. 
June 21, 1923.Three seen. 
King Island, French Frigate Shoals, June 22-23, 1923 . About thirty seen. One 
taken on Round Island. 
June 24-27, 1923 . Seen daily on Sand Island. One heard giving a low trilling 
song on the wing. 
Johnston Island, July 13, 1923 - Two seen and one taken on Sand Island. Not 
in breeding condition. 
Wake Island, July 29, 1923 . Two seen. 
July 31, 1923 . Seen. 
August 1, 1923 . A dozen seen. A male taken in adult plumage had testes 
August 2, 1923. About 20 seen. 
August 4, 1923 . Seen. 
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