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Hoeman, Vincent D.
1964
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Ray Jillson caught an interesting small fish (Sculpin ?) in the
nearby Ala Wai Canal. "Ala Wai" is Hawaiian for fresh water road, but
this section of the canal, nearly 2 miles above its mouth is still
affected by tides and probably quite salty.
Too long otherwise life size, but others of what seems to be this sp.
attain 6 to 8 inches.
Usually seen solitary and sedentary at night among littoral rocks.
January 31
Slept well. Hit the paperwork again this morning
till 0730 when Ely, Gould, Ludwig, Whiteman and I drove out to Pearl
Harbor to check our ship. We wpent an hour at the Nimitz Gate getting
passes and waiting for Dr. Brodie. Before we reached there, I counted
twenty barred doves one place on a lawn. They are so confident they
will walk right from a porch into a house but seem never to be caught.
At the gate a Golden Plover lit on the building roof and I saw half
a dozen more today in yards. Three or four Brazilian cardinals,
Paroaria cristata, lit in a tree from which a moment later a pair of
mockingbirds, Mimus polyglottos, chased each other.
At the harbor we found the U. S. S. Energy and checked out our
storage area beneath the starboard hatch on the faintail. Here super
structure and deck are wood, very pleasing. She's 176 feet long. After
meeting Ferguson and others, Ludwig, Whiteman, and I went on to Pearl City
to bring our stores from the warehouse. En route we spotted five Cattle
Egrets, Bubulcus ibis of a recent introduction