Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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Lehner P. 1944 Nov. 11 - continued 3 I took pictures of the people who were eager to pose and generous with smiles and laughter; the head of the local Womens Club inquired through Lanny when we were leaving and invited us to eat in the main village; being 12:15 we accepted and arranged to partake of their food at the dispensary where we were to meet Dave; we continued down the path with three small girls following in awe; when I stopped to take a picture of a couple huts the natives immediately ran out into the path and posed, blocking out almost completely the purpose of the picture; just as I was snapping the shutter Roger, half startled, snapped, "What the — is that - excuse me," and pointed to a Brown Booby perched on a window sill; on inquiry Lanny explained that he had brought 20 young Brown Boobies from another island over here, but only 4 or 5 were still living as pets - he stated that although the bird is fed fish by its master, it still fishes for itself and returns home; we returned to the pond in hopes of collecting the unknown shorebird - so far we had collected 2 Golden Plover, 1 Common Noddy and 1 Fairy Tern; on approaching the pond we could see four shorebirds - one of which looked like a Golden Plover, but with a gray head - just as I was about to lower the gun muzzle under a palm frond and (over)