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I found one bird'bone, some crab claws and many shells in fragments of the rock. 
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cnsolidated sand and earth of these islands where it 
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xcd with the excrement of birds. In these islands the deposits are due 
mainly no albatross, frigatebirds and boobies. Terns and Shearwaters are too 
small to produce excrement in sufficient quantities. Nest sites of the three specie 
mentioned are covered with solid masses of their dung sometimes of considerable 
amount. 
Between Johnston Is. and Sand Is. are lines of reef running northwest 
and southeast from 25 to 50 yards apart with from one to six fathoms of water 
between. The aviator informed me that three miles wast of Johnston is an 
extensive rock flat bare at low tide. It is my belief that Johnston Is. formerly 
was much more extensive and that probably covered all this area but has’been eroded 
away. aMy belief in its antiquity is based on the formation of the base rock 
and the manner in which it is plainly being cut away and bn the presence of 
guano. 
There were several red wood logs on the shore of sand Is. and a board 
ereexed on the highest point similar to one found on the hill at the main island. 
July l6--A tick that lives in the sand is very bad in this camp...bite severely 
the spot itching and swelling and givigg trouble for several days...killed 
92 of the ani 
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July 18 --Following is a bird census of the main island: 
Laysan Albatross 1 young 
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•edge-tailed Shearwater 2500 
Christmas Is. Shearwater 300 
Bulwer : s Petrel 900 
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;cby 250 
Blue-faced Bocby 
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