Amerraan, Ke nneth— Sand I. Midway Atoll- -Green I., Kure Atoll 24 
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owl, re^dhead duck, unidentified duck resembling small scaup (Asiatic?), 
several sharptailed sandpipers, one pectoral, several unidentified 
uncollected passerines. Two mist nets have produced about twenty 
shorebirds in two days. 
Saw my first Masked Booby and Bonin Island Petrel today— latter from 
mist net. Unident. Procellarids on Midway most probably Bonins. 
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October ;>1— Jim and Bill took me on a short tour of the study areas. 
Seventy- three burrows in one corner (50 feet by 50 feet) of one plot. 
We then rode around tie beach on the flatbed, chauffeured by 
Gibson. Saw ay first albatrosses. Black foots. We banded five. Also 
saw my first Hawaiian Monte Seals - one group of twelve, another pair 
and another single. Three new ones were tagged. 
Shorebirds caught in mist nets are being weighed and measured. 
Jim has demonstrated the preparation of both skins and skeletons. 
November 1 — Jim and I spent the morning and part of the afternoon 
plotting one shearvrater -petrel study grid and counting burrows. The 
birds seem to favor the grass clumps or grass -puncture vine associations. 
They seem to avoid low puncture -vine, but a few are found beneath high 
clumps. A few are found beneath the clumps of another lew-growing, 
1 ight-green plant. Very few were found in ScaevoLa . 533 active burrows 
151 inactive, 82 scrapes, average density per slot = 35* Maximum 84 and 
minumum 8 . 
Later In the afternoon we rode around looking for seals and gooneys. 
Four new seals were tagged, new black-footed albatrosses banded, 
new recoveries. We also missed unbanded birds, making a total of 
new birds for the day and altogether on the Island. 
