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tail, et mouths of two rivers just below Santiago the day 
we went up* Two seen aeparately lower down as we descended. 
Perhaps the same pair* Both were shot at and one badly wounded# 
but no specimen taken* The only ones I have seen* 
8. Green Heron (Butorides) Exceedingly Wi plentiful* everywhere all 
the time. Young half grown skylarking about driftage. 
9. White Heron, Blaok bill and feet but yellow toes. Abundant all 
along the river. Almost always singly but as many as 3 once eeen 
together. One seen setting between 2 CarabaorBirds. 
10. Carabao-Bird. Abundant. (No Groat Blue Herons.) 
11. Tringoldes. Very numerous. 
12. Numenius trioolor. Common. V . * . 
IS. Groat Tfettler (Tetanus) In flocks, pairs and singly* and feet 
greenish olive. Sise of Willet. One shot btf Capt. McCoy. Not 
skinned. 
14. Little Curlew. (Numenius) in small numbers. 
15. Rede shanks .—Abundant. 
16. Small Sandpipers, several spodies in prod5.gious flocks. 
IX. Large Ring-neoked Plovers, abundant singly and in flocks._ 
18. Small Ring-neoked Plover, very sharply-black ringed. Scarce. 
19. Purple Gallinule, thick-billed. On river and lake. 2 shot. 
20. Waterhen (Gellinula) Very abundant. 
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April 26, 1904 . , 
Arrived at Baganga at 9.00 A. M. on the Ranger. Low tide. (^*jy 
oulew on the reefs. Busy all morning packing for hike over the moun¬ 
tains to Corapostella on the Agusan River. After lunoheSn we went ashore 
and got the oargadores together. One the sand beaches were many small 
sandpipers, Turnstones, Stone-colored Sandpipers, large And Small Ring 
Plovers, eto. A few Titlarks. At the house of Lieut. Talby I saw 
skins of the Geleopittiecus or feig Plying Squirrel and of a plain-colored 
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Civet, plain reddlBh brown, somewhat paler below— something like a coon. 
One huge Pigeon, Carpophaga aeneus. Shot at the river crossing 
(Baganga River) while waiting for return of basota, oolleoted land shells 
inhabited by Hermit Crabs. Marched seven miles to hemp plantation of 
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an American-German named Christian Ade. He has 30,000 hemp plants. Rats 
ate up 1,000 bushels of his upland rioe, only leaving his sead^ ■ Ade has 
Hved here 2 years. On arrival no natives of Baganga, Visoayajts, eto., 
would work for him owing to their fear of Handayan attack^ the Rarest 
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