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Aug 30 No news developments, Went on board the vessel to Lunch. They will lie here several days and we can send letters by them so have work on our hands. Aug 31 Wrote letters home and to Prof Baird. A cold rain set in about 7 a.m. and continued all day. About noon some men returned who had been gathering wood on the other side of the Is [[island?]] and brought me the following birds:- 2 Shrimp [?], melanoleuca, 1 Hiteroceles incanus [[Heteroscelus incanus]], 2 Passeralla iliaca [[Passerella iliaca]], one being a young of the year, 2 Warblers either Keunicott's War [[Warbler]], or a species news to the fauna of N.A. September 1877 -- --St.Michael's- Sept. 1---
Transcription Notes:
I think? Is is short for island? but not sure.
Perhaps typo for: Heteroscelus incanus? which is a Wandering tattler (bird)