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. Ipomea pea-capcae, a very luxuriant growing vine has extended to 
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sandy dry portions of the higher elevations, and even is seen growing on une* 
ioe side or Soutl1 east end almost to the waters edge. This furnishes good nesting 
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locations for the swallow. Sterna fuliginosa or the sooty tern, and it was for 
these birds that I took the two bales of straw, to furnish this species with good 
nesting material. This straw was distributed over many locations on the Island 
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and the birds had already begun to avail them selves of this building material 
Deforce had completed our 15 days visit. * 
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Molasses grass, Mellnls mlnutlflora. was planted by me as an experiment 
and also several pounds of Arizona salt bush, in hopes some of this would take 
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root and become a binder of the shifting sands, so detrimental to the life of the 
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lyoung birds of the burrowing species, such as Bulwers Petrel, Bulwerla Bulwex-1 
land Prloflnus cuneatus, or the Shearwater. 
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From Honolulu, a plant supposed to have come from the Philliplne islands, and 
|appearing in all filled in lands of salt marsh places , was planted by me and 
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|if this is established it will be a good addition to Laysan flora. 
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The following are the species of plants collected by me, on Laysan. 
Portulacca lutea, Capparis sandwlChlna,Cyperus papyrus, Mucuna glgantea, 
Scaevola frutesens,Tribulus clstoides, Cynodon dactylon,Nicotiana tabacum, 
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Heliotropum curassavicum, Sicyos sp. ?.Solanum nodlflorum, Sedge Sp. ? 
Boerhaavia Sp. Undetermined Grass, Sp. ? 
-girds Sterna fuliginosa . or Sooty Terns were the most plentiful, and the 
young were about § grown and Just about to fly.The next species of Importance 
were the, wedge tailed shearwater, Prloflnus cuneatus, and these were mating 
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and burrowing holes, mostly in the open sandy stretches, < ■ 
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Both' Diomedea Nigripe? and Diomedeai immutabilisthe latter the Laysan 
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Albatross had migrated, but of/ : th.e‘ last named species, a few of the young 
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not being old enough to fly had been left behind, most of them will starve 
It is evident from this condition that the:instinct t6 migrate is greater 
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