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$8S2$2Sj£r m Albatross banding in afternoon. We handled about 260 
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birds f with the aid of Si lock and Gibson. Worked south a long irunway-- 
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hoveKber_Jj_--iiegan clearing vegetation plots in afternoon. Nearly finished 
one in morning glory on west side of runway, south of buildings. 
Completed another in grass at north end of runway and started a third, 
in mixed Vegetation., along the shore at the same area. 
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Lill and I banded seventy laysans and got twenty-nine recoveries 
oehind barracks and in south antenna field before dark. Jim began settin/r 
jup albatross study nests. 
November 18— Bill and I ran the traplines. Weighing each individual in 
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the wind was a real chore. It took us all day. We managed to finish 
just in time to reset the trips for tomorrow. 151 captures. 
Novem ber 19— Second day of trapping. 139 captures . 
A great many Laysan albatross now in the study area and the 
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rest of the antenna field, most of them unhanded, which is disheartening. 
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We have given up all hope of keeping up with them as they arrive on the 
island. Many are in pairs now and there is a great deal of the "talking 
to the chick calling. So far we have seen very little dancing; what 
displays we have observed have all been short. 
We discovered that most of our ticks have died, which means a 
great nuisance for us in catching rats and searching them all over again. 
We caught and killed sixty- three rats this evening and tallied over 
three ticks fvom them ♦ They had better remain and there had better 
be a plane Thursday? ^ 
