12 June 64 cirthis, their burrows, a dog like call that, when imitated, increases, facilitating location of the burrow. We hunt out these well-concealed birds, finding 15 of them. We also manage to find 23 of the very flighty Wedge-tails. Papua is very flat, a shelf of extremely porous coral, covered with the holes are, actually, nice - deep holes, ramifying throughout the island, lined with stiff coral projections into the openings. A better island for Procellariids couldn't be devised, at least from the standpoint of its porosity. Were the 1st Procellariids nesting in cavities, like these? Did burrow digging evolve from this earlier habitation of natural burrows? Many dead birds were in evidence, perhaps because of some disease - some probably due to human interference. We can watch certain birds on their backs + quivering, probably from some disease.