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Hoeman, Vincent D.
1964
We search and call for petrels and I disturb a golden plover at
9200 as I came down in dark. We make a fire and eat at shelter, then
descend stopping after to listen and call. Couldn't stay up there without
antifreeze tonight. We decide to stop by road near Po Game sta
to visit them in morning, but unfortunately we're on military reservation
and at a quarter after midnight a John Wayne-type lieutenant and two
body guards give us a jeep escort off their land. We also have a
brief altercation with a cow over right-of-way, but finally sack out
again out of sight of the highway in low country.
Noted goat hung above 12,500 and a skull lower today. horses
sometimes used to climb the mountains.
April 24--So we drive south at 0600 when the pheasants wake us to
Puu Waawaa when the Dillingham Ranch is said to be outpost of the
crows, but a mile or two before we reach it we have the pleasure of
seeing a bright male wild turkey by the road. The ranch itself,
besides many horses, has green pheasants, Ercol's Francolin, partridge,
mourning (?) doves, and a pen of more exotic birds. In the area we
also saw a smaller partridge, cardinals, and the barred dove. Near
_______we pick up Japanese White-eye female d.o.i.r. Larry prepares later.
We go on down to the south point of the Hawaiian group through fields
of Tantana and further out, of grass but find no native birds there,
only skylarks, English sparrow, mynah, and pigeons. One of latter had
al. band left, blue band right. Casurina grove near the light.