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wherever there is shade. At nightfall or when the sky is overcas" they wander in 
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are into everything and it is not safe to leave birds exposed 
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practically impossible to trap the abundant rn as the crabs 
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spring my traps by ni; 
a or day, or if a rat does chance to find the bait fir, 
its mangled carcass with two or three crabs at work in it is all that remains 
in a short time. The crab c2.imbs trees or rocks with the greatest facility so 
that no.here are traps secure from them. The rats taken so far have been 
secured by shooting or by hand. 
July pO --?eale Island has a soil of sand along the beaches that becomes a 
loose sandy loam in the interior. On the north, the windward side is a level 
flat of conglomerate that is mainly bare at low tide. At one ’place for a 
considerable area then is a surface two hundred and fifty yards wide that is almost 
level. In fron the sea breaks heavily on our outer reef. Behind there is a rock 
exposure with an upward slope toward the interior of the island with masses or coral 
many of large size thrown up into a steep faced beach 25 feet high that forms 
a regular level surfaced wall. This is near the center;at either end of this 
island is a beach of fine sand. 
Tu cnefortia argentic is evenly distributed over most of the island. This tree 
grows openly so that it is not difficult to walk through it. Occasional small mea¬ 
dows were grown with grass. Toward the upper end (west) were extensive 
growths of Inonea pes-caorae thus in places had smothered low trees. The Tournefortia 
iveraged 10 to 20 feet high. 
Noddies nested through here and I was pleased to find a small colony cf Wedge¬ 
tailed Shearwaters. 
Near them we caught two Christmas Is. Shearwaters. 
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