A merman, Kennet h 
19o4 , - 36 
Brown Booby - Hates 
January 8 - Beginning of courtship and nest building. 
January 23 - First egg. 
January 29 - Second egg in same nest. 
February 1 - Second nest, with egg. No. 2 February 8. 
February 5 - Third nest with egg. Ho. 2 February 11. 
February 6 - Fourth nest with egg. 
February 11 - Nest five with egg. 
February 12 - Neste 6 and 7 with eggs. 
February 24 - Five banded, three returns. 
February 25 - One banded, one returns. Fourteen nests. 
February 29 - Bnded two, one return. 
March 1 - Nineteen nests, thirty-three eggs. 
March 3 - Twenty- three nests, thirty-eight eggs on island. One 
incubating a Sooty egg. One nest on islet, on slope, with a Noddy egg. 
March 4 - Different $ on nest 9; bill painted. 
March 5 - Two more nests on islet j all three have eggs. 
March 10 - First chiclt - egg No. 1. 
March 13 - Eggs 2 and 5 hatched. 
March 15 - Thirty-five nests, sixty-three eggs, three chicks. 
March 19 - Nest 9 abandonned since March 15* The eggs were out 
of the nest that day, down the hill. We put them back but to no avail. 
March 25 - Nest three abandoned after the death of the single chick. 
