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Lehner, P.
1964
Oct. 18
little luck with the fish nets we
were using in catching mice, although
George managed to club one with the
remains of his net; we returned to
camp at 10:50 ; armed with butterfly nets
we once more went after mice - this time
we were more successful in getting the net
down flat on top of them - also we
found that when they holed up we could
easily dig them up and get 'em going again;
we returned with our series complement
of 4 at 12:15 ; while in the interior at
11:25 we observed a male adult Brown
Booby in a random nest building, site selecting
behavior - he would pick up and move
debries, but never concentrated in collecting it
at one site; today for the first time I
noticed that there are coconut palms on
Aromeni Island ( they are completely lacking
on Jaboerotku ); at 1:10 I went skin-diving
just as the raft from the ship approached
the island ; at 2:00 the raft departed with
blood samples and bird specimens we had collected;
during mid-afternoon we wrapped the fish
collected at Ditar Island in cheesecloth and formalin,
(over)