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ISLAND TIMES 
HOME AND GARDEN 
AUGGIE VAN BIRDEN'S 
ADVICE TO THE LIFE LISTER 
Dear Auggie: 
On a recent YAG trip I feel certain I discovered a new species of 
shearwater. It was black, white, and brown. I would like to name it the 
YAG shearwater. Can I do this? Please answer in your column because I 
desperately need this bird for my year list. It will feive me a total 
of 300 species for the central pacific ocean. WK 
A. Why not, bubjl I got 330 species in the same area last year and feel 
certain that at least ten of them were new species. Your accurate 
description leads me to believe that yours is also a previously 
undiscovered species. With luck you may find the thirty species 
I had. 
Dear Auggie * 
Hy friends all say that Sula dactylatra is a Blue-faced Booty. 
They all laugh and sneer when I call it a Masked Booby. Please tell 
me they are a different species because they 1 11 give me 302 species for 
the year, W.K. 
A. Sorry bub, your friends win this one, you*11 just have to settle for 301 
Dear Auggie; 
I am stuck in the office while the rest of the guys are out in the 
field racking up species for their year lists. I am confident, however, 
that I can identify the various species in the radar photos they send me. 
For example the Wedge-tailed Shearwater makes a bigger blip than does the 
Audubon’s and species such as Harcourt’s Storom Petrel hardly 
show up at all. Can I legally list those species on my year list. 
C.E. 
No 
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