. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 50 In the frigate colony Schlemmer caught two males and after killing them I inflated them and ligated the trachea. The throat sac was dissected out in the afternoon. We put up the skins taken in the afternoon. About five thirty we went in for [a bath] in front of the cabin. I was enchanted with the swimming. The water was agreeable; our little harbor had a sand beach with no coral. The bottom goes off steeply so that twenty feet out it is six feet deep. The shallow water to the reef is a beautiful clear green
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 50 In the frigate colony Schlemmer caught two males and after killing them I inflated them and ligated the trachea. The throat sac was dissected out in the afternoon. We put up the skins taken in the afternoon. About five thirty we went in for [a bath] in front of the cabin. I was enchanted with the swimming. The water was agreeable; our little harbor had a sand beach with no coral. The bottom goes off steeply so that twenty feet out it is six feet deep. The shallow water to the reef is a beautiful clear green, beyond the deeper water is a deep purple. I wrote my notes in the evening to the accompaniment of eerie wails from the Wedge-tailed Shearwaters the screams of terns, and little barking calls from the Bulwer's Figure 14. A. Wetmore and Eric Schlemmer return from a forenoon afield [carrying frigatebirds and a booby]. Laysan Island. May 5, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Press; National Research Council (U. S. ). Pacific Science Board; Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History (U. S. ); United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. Washington, D. C. : [Smithsonian Press]
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