C. G. Lceran Station, Send Island, Johnston Island Atoll 
Bar lease runnel. Check two Booty Terns (one adult and one imaature ) , 
which had broken wings, for ectoparasites (mllqphaga and feather mites). 
Did find one chigger on head of adult. Placed litter sample front 
Sooty Tern area in Berlese funnel. Set up a roost made out of 
12 foot plank to try to catch more at night. Saw two Sooty Terns with 
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chicks which had just hatched. Very few of these left however . 
Banded a Red -tailed Trqpicblrd under a snallMesoschmidt plant— Maybe 
starting to nest? 
Ken cleaned three hundred Sooty Tern hands (number tlirees) and these 
were used up on Isaaature after dark. Ken did two hundred. I did one 
hundred Booties, twenty-four Frigates (59* s , 21 C's), two Brown Boobies 
and four Red -footed Boobies. Those with nests or chicks were 
caught on the little offshore island. The Masked Booby landed last 
night was back age. in. The red paint on the beaks of the Frigates 
banded last night shows up very well. The low tide again coincided 
with ecjaplete darkness and I had no trouble trading across the shallow 
water. A small (local Gray-backed Tern was seen on the island where 
the adults roost. This makes a total of two immature (one immature, 
one local) and one egg recorded on Sand Island so far. Several . 
mere unbanded Christians Island Shearwaters were seen tonight in the 
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area where the Brown Bobbies nest. 1*11 try to band these tomorrow 
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July IT, 196 ^ 
This iiomlng Kan and I made a "blind" out of a large wooden crate 
