C. G. Lor an Station, Sand Island, Johnston Island Atoll 
the hand nets. We were able to finish two hundred in shout an hour. 
With Bat chatchlng I was able to do ana hundred of these in forty- 
five minutes. After dark we finished banding and tagging four hundred 
Booties (adults) by 11 p.m. The birds are esetrenely skitlsh and fly 
with the full mom up high in the sky. It may be best to even use 
nets at night. Total birds banded today— seven hundred. 
Tills afternoon ve saw and heard a Bristle Thighed Curlew. 
This is the first recorded visit of this bird to the island. The 
mom is almost full tonight. 
August 2, 19 uf 
It was decided to hand net Sooty Terns in the daytime instead 
of working at night. Before the color tag marker ran out we banded 
five hundred Sooty Terns. Two hundred more were banded after running 
out. Four thousand five hundred ( kj OCH- ) Sooty Terns have been 
tagged since July 21st. We will now band until a new supply of 
color markers arrive. One band was recovered from a Sooty Tern today 
(TfJ-thObB). This, like the one on the Christmas Island Shearwater, 
was crimped so bad that the number could, not be read before loosening 
the band. The band would not even turn around on the bird's leg 
Tills may be one of the birds Dr. Ashaole banded in December . 
The full moon tonight really illuminates everything. I 
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attempted to band Frigates and Boobies but was only able to get 
one Frigate and one Bed-foot. It is just too bright to do any 
banding at all. 
