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"I noted a second patch of Sesuvium alontg the lagoon and Mr. Nullaway 
"brought in a plant of a legume Tribulus cdstoides. 
" I collected a series of frigate birds ...” 
April 11 - ” This forenoon I worked north along the beach to the northern 
point of the island and then returned along the inner rim. 
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" AT one point there were growths of Scaevola lobelia (formerly 
Kpenigii) barely holding their own. Normally a shrub four or five feet high 
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here the plant merely protruded gnarled and twisted limbs above the sand 
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which had drifted in and covered their trucks. Only those persisted 
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that grew near the crest of the slope that came up from the beach where the 
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sand was blown away from them to some extent. Most of the limbs were bare 
and denuded of bark. A few still viable produced scant bunches of elliptical 
fleshy leave shipped by the rabbits or other agencies. To add to their 
difficulties a colony of frigate birds were choosing nest sites among their 
scant branches. 
" Nor a considerable space along here the black-footed albatross was 
the most abundant. 
" Ifhere were large colonies of gray-bakked terns were beginning to nest 
among the rocks on the beach. Curlew and turnstone were common and I shot 
one sanderling. 11 
" Mr. Cam has planted seed supplied fae by Mr. Judd of ironwood 
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Casuarina eauisetefolia and Milo Thesoesia nopulnea ." in message to admir al 
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April 12 — " The Black-footed albatross occupies the outer slopes of t 
island on the northern side almost to the exclusion of the Baysan species. 
On the east is a tremendous colony of Nrigate birds and a large group of 
Sooty Tern has come in there also. 
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