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The Laysan Finch has also hoen naturalized here and with it the 
little flightless rail from Laysan, both now found on Sand and iiastern 
Islands in abundance. A morning awakening in a oomfortable room at the 
cable station with a cheerful chorus of song from canaries and finches 
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offered a pleasant oontrast to the matutinal salutation from a multitude 
of shearwaters heard through the canvas walls of a tent whipping in the 
steady trade winds* 
On Midway^ as we ll as on all the other islands visited we encountered 
other travelers, clad in feathers, engaged in far more venturesome journeys 
than our own* Golden glover, tumstones, bristle-thighed curlew, tattlers, 
and sanderlings all pass south across the ocean to winter in distant islands 
throu^i the entire broad stretoh of the Pacific and in spring again return 
north to their far distant breeding grounds* At Pearl and Eermes reef I 
saw turnstones come beating up from the south at daybreak, evidently tired 
as they took shelter from the wind in the troughs of the waves, eager to 
gain the land again. The nearest land frcm whioh they had- come was Johnston 
Island or the more distant Gilbert group hundreds of miles away, and other 
hundreds of miles separated these tiny bodies from the nearest 
in 
Alaska, their distant goal. Though many must be lost enough oome through 
to maintain the number of their species. The lawns at aidway seemed as 
weloooe to tumstone and golden plover as to ourselves, and no doubt they 
were^glad of an opportunity to rest under suah pleasant circumstances. 
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