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R.Clapp - 1964
Nov. 2 Kwajalein Island, Kwadjalein Atoll.
A fourth duck was shot but as only its wing
was broken the bird calmly crossed the runway
(which was forbidden territory to us as Security
had warned us against this) and headed for the
weather station. After leaving the airfield at
three P.M. Ken and I took a taxi to the weather
station in an attempt to run down this bird but
were frustrated when we found that the bird
had waddled back across the runway and had
reestablished itself in the central waterway.
The others returned from Orebebbu where
they had been poisoning fish as we returned to
the boat. Later in the evening, I checked
over the fish superficially. On the whole
the species representation was similar to that
found on Enubuj but a number of other forms
were collected for the first time, including
a very large Cornetfish.
Fish Collected on Orebebbu
Labridae - Macropharyngodon meleagris
Labroides dimidiatus
Halichoeres hortulanus
Serranidae - Epinephelus fario (?) (Three blotches
along the base of the dorsal fin,
no black stripe near the maxillary)
(A possible first record for the
Marshalls ??)
Chaetodontinae - Chaetodon auriga
Fistulariidae # Fistularia petimba (Cornetfish)
Others which I reidentified which we had collected
before included Chaetodon unimaculatus, Acanthurus
triostegus, Naso lituratus, Epinephelus merra,
and Ctenochaetus striatus. Two species of
Triggerfish were collected, one the same as that
collected on Enubuj.