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(2) Our camp in the reserve above Maui has more quiet warmth without heavy frost.
Caught in the traps 2 new species, one like Spring (small) in appearance but naked ears + white soled feet; the other a small light gray rodent with a shortish tail. Most of the mice were Microtus sp. & one Apodemus (large kind).
During the day I shot 2 Tinpees in roadside hedges + saw 1 red-bellied squirrel on a tree. I shot 6 pigeons—a gray one with speckled throatband + reddish wing coverts. They occurred in small flocks in the rice fields. We saw water found only in one place at noon.
There were several flocks of Bernacle geese, many tawny geese + small white gull in flooded rice fields. A few blue heron, + glossy black stork seen also jack snipes on stream margins. A common bird here is the black crested myna which is often seen sitting on houses + trees—carbon like our crowbird. Another myna which is common is the plum-colored yellow-billed species like that introduced in Hawaii.