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rabbits are so reduced. Last night Reno got none. Night before 1 ? 
carrying 11 young. No vender they peopled the island! 
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Birds coll, today 
#11 Diomedea immutabilis cf 
skeleton of bird with broken wing slowly dying of 
starvation which we put out of misery. 
#12 - Bulweria bulweri o’ 
#13 - Bulweria bulweri $ 
Eggs minute 
#14 - Sterna fuliginosa 2 
Largest egg 5 mm. 
(Also 2 Bulweria bulweri given Reno for B-S. 
Wednesday 4-18-23 Rain at dawn sun till 11:00 cloudy light So.E. wind 
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Temp. 12:01 AM: Dry 69° wet 69° Rel. H. 100% 
M. Temp. 82° 6:PM. 73° Temp. 7:00 AM Dry 70° Rel. H. 100% 
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Ball, excited by the Bulweria I brought in last night went petrel 
hunting with a flash light: in the evening and found a pair of the birds 
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nder one of the old shacks. I went down with him and was interested in 
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their ’’barking". While we had the light on them one of them began to "make 
up to" its side partner, and in doing so gave vent to a series of low ex¬ 
plosive barks that would have passed as the distant welcome of a 20-year 
old family bull dog. Oddly enough the Christmas Id. Shearwater begins ins 
song with just such explosive "barks" before settling into the cat like 
yowling that indicates its kinship with P. cuneatus. In other words its 
voice is a composite of 3. bulweri & P. cuneatus just as its body size is 
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intermediate and just as it combines the color of the petrel with the other 
characters of the shearwater. 
