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EltrfERBURY DRAFT 3/l6/65 MAMMALS 
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Only two species of mammals 
V * a -* e £tU U'*Ul 
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. ^ppp*. Sped cs u^<^u-V>YtfcIl^ / 
populations^ Both tfBkMe were introduced by man and < 
are 
now extinct, Ellis (1S07) 
JT^4 t e x 
that a horefe and mule left on the 
island in the l8^0*s, when the Phoenix Island Guano Company ceased its 
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operations, were still alive in the l880 ! s, when the Arundell 
found 
,q|g| Company arrived. Bones of these or other jj 
on the island. \U ?e*>*8* 
O u rr t ulT 
No rats or evidence of Tto ^fescvjp^e-en found jyjT any -^OBSP trip 
k ^rap ihU; a frJRkl/ 
Q'eral Cat - Fel 
0 9 *1 / Jf ^ 7 o C o * t*L l '" 61 1 
■gyfsy -t'Q" Wui'l d- 
were int^oduce^ i lura. 
737 '\£ V. 
the fi?yr\0BSP visit in Jtdly, Ji?l63 several 
y> 
skulls were fojjlfcL and a few^ajff were an at night, Wbse^ent trips 
2 males a&tT 2 females werejfillSd and non^&ve pSen seen since July 1964 . 
jIl \ 
Alth^gh one of the f^&les killedVn Jul^^as^^; fetuses in the uteri it 
' - ■ . -X X gfes, 
possible that tte§ population voxLl&^mve died oiSlyfrom natural causes# 
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