C. G. Loran Station, Sand Island., Johnston Island Atoll 
Sooty Terns before lunch . Learned that service had coma back on the 
garbled massage of last week. It said that Ken Vila was to return 
to D* C. on September 12. This is impossible. We will still leave 
as planned. 
After lunch we banded eight nestling Frigate birds and one each 
of Bed-tailed Troplcblrd, Red-footed Booby and Brown Booby nestling 
Killed two Coraaon Noddles (immature) with broken wings. 
Obtained ectoparasites from these. Cut more color markers. 
Early this morning there were twenty-nine Ruddy Turnstones 
end five Golden Plovers around the buildings eating worm in the 
grass . 
Banded and color narked three hundred adult Sooty Terns after 
dark. After about m hour’s walking through them, they get very 
jumpy aid fly when the light hits them. The moon is now about 
one-third full and is fairly bright. 
August 27, 1963 
Cut color roar leers this Eiorning. Ken and I banded tiro hundred 
adult Sooty Terns between 9 and’ 11 a.m. — extremely difficult (and 
slow) to catch. There seems to be even fewer Sooty Terns today. I 
would now estimate approKiaately ten thousand Booties are present. 
Filled out fendin’: Schedules after bunch. Also took setsse 
photos. Set up mist net in conjunction with the small sandpiper 
decoys in an effort to catch some Ruddy Turnstones and Golden Plovers 
None wore caught by darkness . A rain earn about 9o0 p.a. The 
