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Wetmore--Journal £1 
Auguse 13--White-tailed Tiopicbird seen in a.m. 
iilC_20—[Poppia] Three hundred yards off shore a low island of coral rock of 
aoou-c 3 or 4 acres 6 n extent, whose level surface, rising 8 or 10 feet above 
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^ is eroc.ua sway iirtc aiany piles and crevices. Milo (Thespesia uowiilnia) 
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formed a thicket at one end and other low vegetation was common. 
i.nc- vj edge -vailed Shearwater nested in cracks and dug burrows and I found young 
a ween or ten days old that when handled squeaked like the tin whistle in a 
child*s rubber toy. A few burrows conta ned eggs. 
1 'imah birds carrie across to roost here at night and I saw one Frigatebird. 
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— -" 0 a dozen uraps m th Milo and under rock ledges and returned after 
dark to find two specimens of the Hawaiian rat. Many shearwaters about. 
Au ~.:st 21--from t; 3 beach we crossed in a launch to Manana Is. also called Rabbit 
Is. This ia an old crater with walls of volcanic ash surrounding it rising on 
cue side to 800 feet and on the other to 75 feet above the sea. The island 
half a mile long and the inner depression of considerable extent. 
Belgian hares have been released here but are kept under control by hunt 
Several Hundred noddies nested on the rocky slopes and minah birds fed on 
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the fruit of a wild tomato. 
