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Brown Noddy Anous stolidus 



(Common Noddy) 

 (Noddy Tern) 



On June 16, 1963, Sibley and Amerson estimated that 5400 brown 

 noddies (including 400 nestlings) were present on Gardner Pinnacles. 

 Several hundred of these noddies were seen flying around the island 

 by Hackman from offshore Mar. 15, 1967. Brown noddies are common 

 breeding birds in the Hawaiian Leeward Chain (Richardson, 1957) 

 but have not been reported heretofore from Gardner Pinnacles. 



Black Noddy Anous tenuirostris 



(White-capped Noddy) 

 (Hawaiian Noddy) 



Sibley and Amerson found one nestling and 15 adult white-capped 

 noddies on Gardner Pinnacles June 16, 1963. White-capped noddies 

 occur on many Pacific islands and have been recorded breeding on 

 most of the islands of the Leeward group (Richardson, 1957). Their 

 occurrence and breeding on Gardner Pinnacles have not been reported 

 previously. 



Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata 



During the months of January, February, and March 1963, POBSP 

 personnel found 16 specimens of horned puffins on the Hawaiian Lee- 

 ward Islands. Only two of these were returned to the U.S. National 

 Museum. One of these specimens (USNM 493357) was an adult in 

 winter plumage that was found dead on the beach, Feb. 20, 1963, on 

 Green Island, Kure Atoll. The other specimen (USNM 497918), a 

 skeleton taken on Laysan Island, Feb. 12, 1963, constitutes the first 

 record of the occurrence of horned puffins on that island. From Jan- 

 uary 26 through February 25, 12 puffins were found on Sand and East- 

 ern Islands, Midway Atoll. Eleven were dead, the twelfth, captured 

 January 26, was banded and released. Another dead puffin was found 

 on Grass Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, on March 5, and another 

 was foimd on North Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, the following 

 day. These observations of puffins on Pearl and Hermes Reef consti- 

 tute the first records of their occurrence there. 



Fisher (1965) reported that in January 1963 seven dead horned 

 puffins had been found on Midway Atoll and that one live horned 

 puffin had been found on the beach at Kure Atoll. Robbins (1966) 

 reported finding five carcasses on Kure Atoll in the period Feb. 3-7, 

 1963. It seems likely that some of the puffins reported by these 

 authors may have been the same birds as some of those found by 

 POBSP personnel. 



