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Gray-backed Tern• 25 
Sooty Tern 5500 
0 
Iv T nite Tern k-Q 
Noddy 1500' 
V . 
Necker island Tern 5 
Tropicbird 8 
Frigatebird 800 
[airplane used to survey the island on this trip] 
i-K. Palmer, geologist; Orme Cheatham, a young man to serve as assistant to 
Pollock and to make himself generally useful; J. B. Mann topographer] 
There was a pile of rock here that perhaps marked the site of a flag 
pole indicated on the chart. 
Mann made a topographic map of the island with Bryan's assistance. 
In. 
Anderson tells me that Sooty Terp, Petrels and Shearwaters do not occur 
on Washington or Fanning Is. 
Following are the birds that he knows to occur on the two islands: 
Fanningy-Red-tailed Tropicbird (few). White-tailed Tropicbird, 3 sp. of Sula, 
Frigatebird, Noddy, Magalopturus, Procelsterna, Tatare, Gygis, Parrakeet. 
Wasmngoon white-tailed Tropicoird, 3 sp. of Sula, Frigatebird, Noddy, Megalopterus 
Procelsterna, Tatare, Gygis, Parrakeet. 
ihe two species of Shearwater cuneatus and nativitatis are found on Christmas 
Is. 
in the lagoon. 
Gnly 21—Seen: White-tailed Tropicbird, P. rubricauda, Bulwerss Petrels, and 
Wedge-tailed Shearwaters. 
-y 2?--Wake Island 19°10'54 w (Hydrographic Pilot) 
