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Tuesday 4-17=23 Showers - E. Wind - gentle -'Cloudy except 2 hrs. 
Laysan Id. Temp. 7:00 PM: Dry 70% Wet 70$ Rel. H. 100$ 
M. Temp. 8l° 6:00 PM 73° Misting. 
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Another aggravating day with humidity that frightens me - 100$ tonight! 
Sharp showers in night but before we got to work in the tobacco natch 
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colony it had clouded over again and vas misting soasmodically - "liquid 
sunshine". He111 Waited around all morning for l/2 hr of sun. 
To Kill rime I set out looking for petrels as we used to on the Coro¬ 
nados, none* having been detectea to date - on the island, in 5 minutes r had 5 'which 
I take to be Bulweria bulweri located in crevices in the oiles of guano rock so. 
w. of the lagoon, in just" such sites as 0. melania would choose if it were present 
on the island.Took 2 for myself and 2 for the ES.y e tmore will be able to 
get all he want's on his return as they seem common enough in the restricted 
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spots that are suitable for them. 
Found a poor emaciated Laysan Albatross dying from lack of food due to 
a broken w r ing, so put it out of misery with a pellet of cotton & ether in 
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/ throat and skeletonized it. 
Had an hour or two of fair to fine sun in afternoon & should have some 
fair film of the Sooty-backed Tern colony, Man-o'-war birds, etc., about the 
tobacco patch. 
The pair cfHJ.matione are about the same rocks today, but so far I have 
not succeeded in photographing them. 
The Toddies at last are shoving nesting interest. Several nairs are 
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ranging arcu no cue row or oxen guano rocks in the same section. As soon as 
one comes to know the birds there is as much difference as between day & 
night between-Noddies and Hawaiian Terns. The former is larger, mo^e pigeon- 
