Gill, Douglas E., 1964
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Gill, Douglas E. 1964 Kauai got a glimpse of, and later we saw one feeding closeby. Quite a spectacular bird. It was getting late around 3:30 and we decided to go just a short distance further. We went around a bend of the ridge and Larry decided to skin the Elepaio while I went on to see if I could see Ollhai swamp. I discovered a group of Creepers (Larry had seen the latter 2 of the above list) so I ran back and got Larry. He saw them and then succeeded in shooting another Lesser Amakihi. He took them back to where he was skinning the Elepaio. I went on ahead and I saw nothing but ridges and valleys all around. Nothing that looked like Alakai Swamp unless this entire area was called Alakai Swamp. I went back to where Larry was skinning and waited until he finished. As a mist (rain?) rolled in a beautiful rainbow popped up on the side of our ridge. Around 5:30 we finally headed back at a good pace and arrived back at the cabin in a shorter time (around 20 minutes) than I thought we would. Apparently we had not gone as far as I thought we had. I was quite ahead of Larry as apparently he had stopped at every place we had seen an Elapaio to see if he could shoot one. While I was waiting some fellows came down the trail from the road calling. Apparently they were looking for the rest of their party. Larry called me back aways and told me he heard some ducks on the stream. We went down to the stream but couldn't find them. They very likely were Hawaiian Ducks. After crossing the stream we collected three little frogs on the opposite bank. We hiked quickly back to the car as it started to rain again. It has been sprinkling on and off all day and the road has become a very slick clay. We decided we better get out of here as fast as possible before the roads became too