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A coral lagoon island, "20-25" miles long (Brigham), or about 6 miles long 
(hydr. chart;; 8 feet high; covered with a "low and sparse vegetation" when 
Brigham saw it in 1865 . He did not land. 
Said to have "large heavy brush" in places, at E. part of the is" od (Hydr. 
Pilot) 
Wilkes visited the island December 20, l84l. eale'(MS journal in L.C.) 
estimated the isald was about 3 miles long, and 12 feet high; no fresh water; 
no trees (other vegetation not mentioned by him); some large blocks of coral 
had been thrown uo on beach 
peale saya "Rats were common" his Mus exulans . 
The following hires were.found by Peale, on December 20, l84l: 
Diomedea brachyura breeding, with eggs. 
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" Sula bassanus " With eggs. "The bassar.us always lays on the ground. 
Sul a (red-legged species) "Just building on trees, but had not begun to 
lay." [Peale, 1843, p. 336; records his S. rubripeda from Wake Island.] 
"Sula fusea " Same remarks as under the preceding. 
Gygis alba 
Onychoprion fuliginosa 
Peliona 
¥ Scolopax" 
Phaethon niioenieurus 
Fregata "aouila" 
