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consolidated conglomerate of coral and coral sand 
have been thrown up at intervals, some of them from eight to fifteen feet in 
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ismeter. 
The beach is a band 150 yards wide of coarde lumsp of corals from 
six to twelve inches in diameter with only a small quantity of fine material with 
it. The cat-eye shell Turbo, a large species, is abundant and I find the calcareous 
operculum in abundance. 
The margin of main shrub growth is sharply defined but scattered trees of 
Tournefortia argentla get a foothold on the rough coral of the cuter beach. 
Cn land there is more 
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s fine sill mixed with the coarser material. 
In 
the trees are many collections of dead branches and tree trunks swept 
together in windows with largo blocks of coral strewn in and over them. 
Apparently these have been washed in by waves and wind. Occasional old stumps 
of large size are bound. It appears from this that the island has been swept 
by a typhoon fro.. the suth perhaps 20 years ago that lose up much of the vegetation 
and threw the huge blocks of coral on the beach. 
Rails were much shyer today during the rain than yesterday...They utter 
a low chattering call, a clattering note that is easily recognized as a rail 
call and also a low cluck that is audible only when near at hand. On feeding 
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they dig up leaves and soil with a quick thrust of one head in search of shells 
or ins-its. 
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oday l dug two geckos facm rotten wood in a large dead log. 
A slink is 
abundant and is very quick and active. They are found in or near the brush where 
they run over stones or branches. It is swift and hard to catch. 
A hermit crab that houses i Turbo shells is exceedingly abundant. When the 
s hot they house at the bases of trees under stones, or in hollow logs, 
