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yons 1939-40
Wake Islands
#78 + 79 Sharp tailed sand piper Nov 13
eyes brown, legs yellow/green
bill almost black at tip lighter toward
base grey brown.
Harry Sweeten #? Frigate bird m ♀ Feb 11
cought at sea on red head plug Wake Is
#80 Noddy Anous stolidus, apparently
adult but skull not thickened, cut
fairly easy with iron, ♂, teters
somewhat enlarged, one 7 mm (longer) width
this one
one 5 mm, dark in color June 23 1940
bill black, feet much lighter slightly
flesh color. Shot with 22 long,
in flight near northern end of Pearl Is.
#81 Wandering Tatler Heteroscelus incanus.
mature ♀ June 29 1940; Bill dark grey
brown, feet yellow, faintly olive. Shot
with 22 dust shot along North shore
of Pearl Is. Another bird was with
this one.
#82 Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata oahuensis
mature ♀ July 4 1940 bill & feet black
Knocked down with a rope at nesting