Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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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)