Johnston . £. 
1964 
14 
17 - Apr 
Wake I land 
least 6 of the booby nests, end insofar as we could notice t here seeded to 
be no conflict between the two suedes. The frigate-birds had an interesting 
cell, one which closely resembles that of a screech owl. In rest instances 
? frigate-birds were incubating though one subahult <f was also neon 
incubating. '•> noted the presence of at, leas t 50 frigate-birds in the 
air or roosting in the trees. Ibis included some adult males (solid 
black ) , subedult <?d (red gul*r pouch but white chests), females 
(bro n throat , while chest and f bAomen), end “immature" birds (white heads, 
crest an abdomen ) • They re noticeable nest robbers. *s s on ec one 
bird would fly off the nest, others won Id ctre end swipt the nesting 
material by swooping down end tak lag sticks in flight. One ad. « set 
tightly bacV under the tree about 7 ft. off the ground. We kept it from 
flying dth s stick and cep turned the bird. Bob dissected It for smarm, 
thm made a skeleton of It, It was surprising to see this amber of 
frigate-birds at the “colony* 1 but bo few netts* Fven at a d J stance we 
could easily see the louse flies crawling all over these birds: in fact 
several flies lit on my arm* from this colony in the woodland* while Bob 
was skeleton! ringr the frlgete**blrd t I waived out on fch* reef at low tide on 
Tvvn at lo-' tide there was not much to be 
seen In the tide tools —both black a nr brovn see cucumbers, numerous blennles 
and other fish, an occasional small m or sy eel (one was banded ,tust like 
*ome hytr 1 > water snakes)* m : ny crabs* including hermits, snails and other 
mo Husks. At a point about 2(K> yds. from t v e M C orison Koduy rock 11 there 
vrere some _._Qnraefort la trees growing above toe hljrh tide mark. 1 bar 
