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Torrey Lyons 1939
July 18
Wake Island
Time - 8:30 to 1:00
Route - Coral Gable, made channel thru sooty tern colony to lagoon shore, cross lagoon head south to ocean worked along around beach to end of gravel S.W. of Labelle wreckage back along beach to channel & home.
Collected 7 glass bells & some black metamorphic rock
Notes - See sp. note
Sp list -
1 Blue faced booby Not Seen
2 Brown booby
3 Red footed booby
4 Curlew sp ?
5 Frigate
6 Havian tern
7 Noddy
8 Sooty tern
9 Snowy tern
10 Sand Piper
11 Flightless rail.
12 Golden plover
13 (Slate colored) plover] wandering tattler
14 Moaning bird
15 Petrel
16 Tropic bird
[illegible]