Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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Lehner P. 1964 113 Nov. 8 in the early A.M. Binion (and somebody else) went to the dump and retrieved the mouse traps containing two Mus; at 9:00 A.M. all of us (including Ben Brown and excepting Ken) took a raft to North Loi Island collecting fish; we put Roger and Dave ashore and then anchored the raft about 200 yards out on the lagoon side and began poisoning; there was a house on the island and a yardfull of about 10 pigs which we could see rooting through Roger and Dave's gear; we had good success with the fish collecting several varieties that appear to be new species; one large moray eel (about 5 ft.) also fell prey to the poison - we saw no sharks; Roger collected 2 Common Noddies, 3 Hawaiian Noddies and 1 Fairy Tern on North Loi, and 2 Common Noddies were collected from the raft off Ebeye on the way to North Loi; we returned to the ship at 3:00 P.M., arrived in time for chow, and then slit fish after eating; the evening and night brought forth the usual and not the unusual.