T. Lyons 1940 Wake Islands #82 cont' colony at South end of Peal Island young birds could almost all fly #83 Shearwater sp? immature? female, length 17 1/2 inches, taken out of hole in garden back of Hospital PAA Compound, Peal island. Bill grey dark sorty tip, feet milk white pinkish. Burrow was 3 1/2 feet long and one foot deep, in coral sand with some humus, few coral chunks. July 11, 1940 The only bird in the burrow. Might be immature as largest ova was only about one m.m. in diameter and skull was only unthickend over lobes of cerebellum. #84 Red footed booby, mature ♂ & tister small, shot in head with 22 long as it glided along the face of the sea wall on the weather side of Peale Is. oppoist PAA compound 5.30 PM July 12, 1940 #85 } preserved in formalin, 5%. Two #86 { baby rails, from nest in chicken yard, about 15 hatched from it. 4 died - there are 2. less than one day old. PAA compound Peale Is. July 21, 1940 #87 {Other two} ♂ #88 {baby rails} sex? ants chewed feet } July 21 1940