August 21,
1964
(cont.)
Lowman: "At Boro Island 2 fairy terns,
2 ruddy turnstones.
1 brown bobby, and
Terns were nesting on the island.
Shot and
wounded a frigate bird that flew out to sea and could not be
retrieved.”
Bonham:
“The northwest reef flat where most of the collect-
ing occurred is partly oceanic and partly inter-~islet in location.
There seems to have been smothering because of siltation,
judging
from the dead centers of most of the coral heads, but most showed
new growth peripherally.
Organisms collected were a 42-cm.
the only one at the islet),
Grapsus
mon under Messerschmidia trees),
blue coral,
3 small H.
encrusting coral,
leucospilata,
Tridacna gigas
(abundant),
spotted crab,
sponges,
(possibly
Coenobita
(com-
staghorn coral,
a single Holothuria atra,
3 Tridacna crocea and 1 Hippopus.”
The rubble-strewn pass and lagoon shores had Grapsus,
but
no other invertebrates could be seen on the narrow inshore reef
flat.
The Ran-Annim (Aloha) raised the anchor at 1:00 P.M. and
started east along the chain of small islets that make up the
southern reef.
On our starboard bow we passed Boka,
Aran; each had low,
Oruk and
shrub type of vegetation and appeared through
the glasses much as I remembered them from previous years.
Chieerete