Clapp, Roger B., 1963-1964, 1968
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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.