. Report of an expedition to Laysan Island in 1911 : under the joint auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture and University of Iowa . Bui. 42, Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate EXPEDITION TO LAYSAN [SLANt) l \ L911. 1 3 habits of the gregarious little creatures. For countless generationsthey have lived in a crowded community, like the inhabitants of ourlarger cities, and now, although the killing of thousands of birds onthe west side of the island has made nesting places available else-where, they still live as did their predecessors, nesting as closely
. Report of an expedition to Laysan Island in 1911 : under the joint auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture and University of Iowa . Bui. 42, Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate EXPEDITION TO LAYSAN [SLANt) l \ L911. 1 3 habits of the gregarious little creatures. For countless generationsthey have lived in a crowded community, like the inhabitants of ourlarger cities, and now, although the killing of thousands of birds onthe west side of the island has made nesting places available else-where, they still live as did their predecessors, nesting as closely aspossible. In collecting birds that had young, much care was exercised nol totake both parents and thus to leave the nestlings to perish. Thismade Hie collecting of some species difficull and slow. Fortunatelywe were able to preserve and so utilize many birds thai were Founddead on the rookeries, the mortality from natural causes being large. LIST OF BIRDS ON LAYSAN. It is not my intention to attempt to duplicate the excellent reporton the birds of Laysan Island by Dr. Walter Iv. Fisher1 in 1902, towhich readers are referred for many details here omitted. We foundthe same species that he did, with the additi
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