ocientiiic Visits to Enderbury Isla 
3. 
«nen ocnultz visited the island, James Kinney, leader of the colonists 
on nnderbury, was banding birds for the Biological Survey ( 
He banded 2400 birds of 13 species ' - - 
to May 15th, 1939. Several of Ihl 
TT ^ 7 °^ niX lsland Petrel^ Audubon ? s Shearwater) were banded in large ©nought 
WUMBjMxS so that it iniccates that there was a much larger population itaxmc 
o- uUS&e there in 1939 than at present, 
birds 
A small.amount of biological materials were collected from Enderburv 
by tne colonists^nd other personnel arriving at the island via the Coast 
uuard supply^visits. In ,1938, Samuel Lamb, Hawaii Park Naturalist, 
visioed.tne lslana and collected a small number of plants. The specimens 
° f RQrtulacastrum were later included in*a new variety, ^riseum 
described by Degener and Fosberg (1952). A.C. Browne, University of Hawaii 
Extension Servise entomologist, visited Enderbury in October 1939 and 
collected a small number of insects. He later reported two srecies, a 
beette, Dermestes cadaverinus, and an aphid. Aphis gossypii (Browne, 1940) 
Otnei- general notes on the island v/ere published by E.H. Bryan (1942) 
- , . ln . tlle Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program of the Smithsonian 
institution began work on the biology of Central Pacific 
Enderbury has been visited seven times by Smithsonian field parties as part 
01 ^this program . The island was visited in July and November, 1963, 
Feoruary-March , July, and November 1964, and in February and May-June, 1965 
(oee Appendix for a list of dates of all visits and for the names of 
the personnel participating in this field work.) 
, lne iaa j°f empnasis 01 this program on Enderbury has been upon the 
numbers, species composition, breeding status, and dispersion of the avifauna, 
as a part of tnese studies slightly over 14,000 birds of 13 species have been 
bcpded and 62 specimens of 11 species have been collected, one of which 
constitutes a new distributional record for the island. In addition, the 
expeditions have made representative collections of fish, insects, plants 
and re P tlles * A 81811 collection of reef Crustacea has been obtained as well. 
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