4-16-23 
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.. v . oaiji.e in teni a s^ade & nest-hunting Red-tailed Tropic Bird is squawk- 
ir.g the most horrible clucking squawks in my tent and under my camn chair 
jusr one foot from my foot. I .just reached over & touched her glorious 
roseate bacK. On a camera box 4 feet from my nose a Laysan Finch is singing 
uli heart out. canary - fashion. He has been in the tent for over an hour, 
&.inging almoso constantly. Beyond the corner of the tent fly, where it 
lies heaped on the ground a Bristle-thighed Curlew is picking idly at a 
brass grommet. So it goes - with no light to work th 
em in. 
Sxeleionized a curlew today and found the pincher claws of a fair-sized 
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crab in his suomach. It was emaciated and depauperate - who vouldn T t 
be? 
a Jap sampan hove too in our cove - rugged devils, clear from 
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y-.onululu in uheir frail boat. Suddenly they seemed to spy our camp - jibed 
asouT ar.c f few down wind. Probably opium runners or poachers with contra- 
cand aboard, who did not care to be investigated inside the 3-mile-limit. 
parties were equally surprised for we had not expected to see a mast 
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bexore the 28 uh ai earliest, and they had expected lea to ride out the nights 
rollers. A good Thing, for they will spread the news the Island is watched - 
even if it is only once in 10 years. 
leno JxGUjt.:i. in a cessicateci Laysan Rail tonight - dead not over a month. 
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Birds coll, today 
#6 - Sterna fuliginosa - o’ 
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Arenana interpres - cf 
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#9 ~ Humenius tahitiensis 2 
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Had The 2 pinchers and other portion of a land crab (Ocipoda ) 
