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Hoeman, Vincent D.
1964
6
This afternoon I visit the zoo where there are pleasing outdoor
cages of several storks and cranes I've not seen before, 3 spp hornbills,
two of toucans, kookaburra, red-billed magpie, Hawaiian hawk, Ind. hill
myna, and Bali white nyanh. Species I know nothing of in the wild seem
happy enough, but I'm struck by the poor condition of black-rumped
tanagers, American bison, pronghorn, and grizzly bear compared to those
I've known in the wild state. A few peacock are loose in the Zoo,
white pigeons, Columba livia, nest in the palms. Chinese barred dover
vie with "bow-coo-spread raised tail" displays, and a flock of seventy-
five mynas bathe in water turned on over lawn.
We move to the ship tonight, setting ourselves up in rather restricted
quarters.
Finished the 4th.
February 22--Jim Ludwig declined when I woke him at 0630 and told us to
be back by 1000, so Doug and I took car east port Diamond Head and out
to the koko head area stopping to view "blowhole," a small beach cave
with an orifice through which the spray of surf below would occasionally
be pushed geyserlike.
Then to koko crater, open on the northeast with a large riding
stables just outside. We walk into crater bottom on trail-road by
a cactus garden of fifty or so spp. not very old. Both spp. cardinals
and white-eye common in the mesquite, also both doves but no active
nests do we find in the mesquite. We climb up to crater rim at rear
and Doug flakes out but I head for top along curmibly lava rim grown