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•April 19 preparing skins and photographing 
April 20 — "A sloping heach of coral sand from 50 to 80 yards wide led 
down from small rounded dunes to the water's edge. The dunes varied in 
height and contour hut were all clothed uniformely with a growth of Sr.Pftvnl* 
■ heavy on the protected sides lighter toward the winds. On the west and north 
extends the "broad waters of the lagoon on the east and south the reef 
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approaches closely to the island shore. The water between is studded thickly 
with heads of coral. There is a long open sand spit to the south and west. 
A smaller one to the north. Some of the dunes pile up to 25 feet above 
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the beach. Hear the eastern part of the island is a level area covering 
one fourth the surfiace :> £^/perhaps with sandy soil grown with gras se* and 
croepers^with an irregular outline dotted with occasional clumps of the 
persist Scaevola. Blue-faced and common boobies inhabit this.It is under¬ 
mined by innumerable petrel burrows and shore birds run over its surface. 
High dunes fringe it on the west and north, elsewhere the island is low. 
The dunes on the west and north extend along that entire side of the island 
" At S1X this evening Grant and I crossed to the meadow after petrels. 
A dusk the y kegnn to appear and I was delighted to kill a fine Bulweria 
(later identified as Pterodroma neglecta). As darkness came on Pter . Kroolenca 
became common and a good many wedge-tailed Shearwaters came out. When it 
was really dark the air was filled with dozens of the white-breasted petrels. 
I shot a good series by aid of the flashlight getting about one bird for 
every three fi&gtS shells." 
April 21-" The morning was occupied in preparing birds on hand and in 
the afternoon I collected a pair each of the two species of albatrosses 
the only remaining species that we had not taken. The bird list fig# _ 
totaled 18 species'not including the gull found on the beach." 
grass to tako "back to laysan jfor planting 
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