Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Lehner, P.
1904
Nov. 11 - continued to
There are lizards on both islands; although,
we were unable to catch any, they appear
to be skinks; with a wide light tan stripe
down the back, the rest of them dark; I
believe they are the same kind we collected
on the more northern atolls.
The natives keep chickens and pigs -
the chickens running free, the pigs penned up;
we found no evidence of domesticated waterfowl;
The following Marshallese birds names were
obtained from Kanny by Rogers:
Golden Plover - Holoej
Fairy Tern - Mejo
Common Noddy - Bejawah
Hawaiian Noddy - Jkar
Brown Booby - Halo
The other group returned from Lageron Is.
about 12:35 A.M.; they 1000 + nesting Red-footed
Boobies; Fairy Terns, Hawaiian Noddies, Common Noddies,
Crested Terns and possibly Sooty Terns in fair
numbers; the natives climbed the trees, broke
the Boobies' wing and then dropped them to
the group - they go to the island about
3 times a year to get birds; with eight
(over)