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V. Bulmer
1966
Catalog
Howland Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean
16 Sept. 1966
9(12x5mm) Bubulcus ibis 309gms slight fat S.
legs+foot-black Iris-orange
bill-yellow orange bare skin around eye-greenish-yellow with yellow eyering
0°52'N 176°36'W Pacific Ocean
20 Sept.
8(6x3mm) no broad patch Iris-black, legs+ foot black
2452 989 Sterna fuscata 171gms slight fat S. coll. F. Smith
0°46'N 176°24'W Pacific Ocean
23 Sept. 1966 beak-dark grey legs-black outside, pink inside Iris-brown
2473 990 Puffinus tenuirostris 674gms very heavy fat S. coll. F. Smith
Enderbury Island Pacific Ocean
8(3x2mm)
6740 991 Erolia melanotos 53.7gms slight fat
26 Sept. 1966 feet+legs-greenish yellow
bill-dark above light below
talons, paler black, foot
87.1gms slight fat S.
legs+foot-blue with white wobbing R P1-6(n),P7(3/5) P8-10(o)
Hull Is. Pacific Ocean
8(2x1mm)
6756 993 Proseleterna cerulea 17gm slight fat S. coll. F. Smith
P1-5(n) P6(1/4), P7-10(o) left lame
P11(o) R2-6(m)
Baker Island, Pacific Ocean
13 Oct. 1966
6768 994 Limosa lapponica 214gms mod fat
8(11x5mm) granular oviduct 3mm coated
Iris-clayc brown Legs+ feet- black
Retrives L1 (o), L2-3 (ch) L4-6(o)
bill-proximal 1/2 flesh with dark brown ridge
bill-distal 1/2 black
6771 995 Erolia acuminata Ad 67gms heavy white fat S
legs-greenish-yellow bill-dark grey with light base of lower mandible
6770 996 Erolia acuminata Ad 87gms heavy white fat S