Johnston . 
1964 
16 
1? Apr 
Wake la lend 
if the "winter" t pes don't constitute a subsdult bird. In the afternoon 
despite the intermittent shower *ctiv‘ty we went beck to Kuku it, to look 
for the tropic birds, Returning to the seme clump of -onmef ort la trees 
we found 2 } rd-te.lled Tronic birds under the one tree. One bird was sitting 
far beck under the tree on e single egg which was almost red-brown with 
dark brown blotches. This *dult, f-9 we 1 ss the other adult and its 
chic— some feet -way under the same tree— all these 3 were banded by 
Bob. he chick was -11 whiteend had a black bill. All these three birds 
grave menacing, raucous cries es they were being” caught, and the adults tried 
to jab fiercely with their bills. We noted that the adults’ feet were 
black and their terso-rcetatersi wer r gray. It Is possible that this is the 
first recorded breeding: of this species on Wake Is. -bout 2- ft. in front 
of the nes containing: theegg was s dead tro lebird -of this species. W© 
suspect a cat had killed, it. It was nearly completely skeletonised, but 
was too much broken up to save. Rein continued, occasionally heavily, 
through the evening. 
IB Apr i here was heavy rain and '-'ind all night long, -no threatening rain 'n the 
mo ming. 
Wing 166 mm. Sparse body molt. Fittest plover I’ve seen yet 
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