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SUNDAY, 30TH MAY 1937 (CONT)
Fine dull cloudy later sunny cloud.
ER216 \u2642\u2640 ZOSTEROPS LAT. \u03c3^1/2- white,
SH519 growth
Shot 11 AM in secondary [illegible] in native garden patch, 2-2500'ASL Tall forest much brown pine, much secondary trees + vines + good deal underbrush, mistle toa, ferns, shrubs, central cliffs. ENE South River SE Burnt Bay. Piggled, deep slp, valley's canyons + ridges.
Not very common in area & generally where more open small patches of forest appear, does feed in the tops of tall forest + on secondary growth.
MOULT W odd lower prim. ABR W/T. N STM 2/5 chillies (red peppers). SKL comp crof chin \u2640
ER217 \u2640 ZOSTEROPS FLAV. \u03c6 1/4 +
SH580 Shot 11:30AM in secondary tree, on tall forest (much brown pine) with much secondary trees + vines + good deal underbrush, mistle toa, ferns set. 2-2500'ASL. Central cliffs. Exro. ENE South River SE Burnt Bay.
Bigged county deep slp gullies or gorges + ridges.
Common in area, feeds mostly in secondary trees amongst convoluted vines set, on low bushes or scrub & often on or near ground.
MOULT nil ABR W/T.N STM 1/5 insects seeds. SKL compf & small patches of moss
Describe trech Bushset in Survey of area
Describe individual birds
Heard of Charmgynopses
Saw Rollers, philipinus + greyish with white eyebrow.
Mutton Birds not traitors had + southern clts not Epua.
Northern clts also. Saw Falco + small whitish harer booh River - Tundus almost to sea East side. Blyton right to sea. Pardy also.
(Hawkes at lower levels)
Hawks pine forests. Bush descriptons set. Rid ground set.
dichmora found away from coconuts in centre of island
Aplanis, [illegible]clanara, [illegible]pidura spilt, ciclalage definitely about.
Pardy + dichmora tend to show altitude differences
Snails control Tundus (not). Populus area.
Into heard almost every night & only one seen picked in hawks pine.