Amerman, Kenneth 
i$m 12 
us set out to census the Lsysan Teal, walking through the vegetation 
about 50 feet apart around the lagoon. We started south on the west 
side, finding very few. They became more numerous as we passed the 
palms at the southeast corner. The vegetation also became rougher, 
with much Scaevola , So l anu m and Syparus extending into the Ipomea . 
About 2/5 of the way around we counted nearly 170 teal on the shore; 
it was then about 6 p.m. and it appeared that the ducks were coming 
out of the vegetation to feed. This seemed to be the major portion 
of the population so we gave up counting and relaxed in appreciation 
of the right of the birds moving along fehe shore and in the water in 
the fading light, bunching up ahead of us. 
Returned to camp quite tired, slept -until 10:50 p.m. Doug and 
Alan had had to give up after doing 200 Sooties; Doug had returned 
to tha-ship in the afternoon, with fish balls, surfboard and driftwood 
log. Camp now looks pseudoscientific aid neat again. Paul and Alan 
had returned from banding 200+ Bonin Island Petrels and 100 Sooty Terns. 
Bob Banner returned shortly from doing 200 more Sooties. I went out with 
500 Sooty bands and the remainder of the Christmas Island string (29). 
Banded 200 Sooties, then worked off the Vs. Mas t of the Christmas 
Islands were iramatures, many with traces of down about the head, and 
nearly all were sitting on sand just at the annex edge of the outer rim 
of Scaevola . Found a very few pairs, ran out of Scaevola by the rocks 
I 
% 
post the Casuarina , finished the bands on the beach. One trio among 
• •_ * 
the rocks, two adults and one half downy young. A few Bulwer present 
I 
1 
there also. 
