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R.D. Kirkpatrick
1964 Journal
Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific
Oct 10PM We counted Wedge Tail
22 Shearwaters, set Mus traps and
Cont banded a Golden Plover caught in the
second mist net.
Oct. 7:30 AM. We ran the mouse traps
23 and made an hourly census of birds
Fri perching on guy wires and other
roosts.
P.M. The middle size, young Red-
tailed Tropic bird was dead. We
froze it.
An unidentified duck was seen.
I shot it and we froze it. It may be
in the genus Anas. A laborer said
several ducks of the same kind
are on Eniwetok so it may be
Asiatic.
After dark several of the Coast
Guardsmen started catching sharks
from the pier.
Oct. 8 AM We ran the mouse traps then
24 Dennis took soil samples while I made
Sat up a mouse skin.
PM I made up another mouse skin.