4 = 23-23 
ininx — somc fine dances unless I wrecked myself by frying to gel 
world beaoen shots with clouds back 2c . . possibly underexposing with 
• B2 iliter on Orthonon stock. Their dances delight me more 2c more. By 
mere half-hearted gull-like bobber. 
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Jij — someone -as suggested that the reason they nest on the crest 
ox’ the veather beach is because "possibly the Laysan bird took & held the 
more favorable lagoon-shore & west ridge-nesting sites". It amuses me 
Chirac of what nigripes would do to immutabilis if competition were 
really keen. The latter would, I imagine, go hy the board in short order. 
A saner sxplanaoion, io strikes me, is that the sturdier bird chose the 
windward ridgewhere a clean-cut run allows it to "take off" easily un¬ 
wind while the weakling took shelter despite the added difficulty in 
rising from the level inland .surfaces. 
Bov, ox last, I had nigripes in sufficient- quantity to wind up the 
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matter of the white-marked birds. I had seen so little indication of white 
rump cc crissum elsewhere that I came-to think them absent from the island, 
but they were there today in all degrees up to a light brown bird that is 
one extreme in whiteness of.all seen. The size of this extreme individual 
aria one or two others that approached it may indicate an average sex difference 
maooer. inose exhibiting the white gave a general impression of 
extreme eo gnzziea age, but tnis may be a mere chance similarity to men 
u cows mar grow hoary with years, since this phase exhibits an increase of 
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.eau carcasses - sailoh^ said 230 -\now sand covered _-\gaps for\fish toils: 
At h ; 00 ue^\rific rain \ packed in\75 lbs. 
mreaweaing aar..-: « heavy \snowers in\eve. - fine swim. 
