t 
04 It looked as though we weren't going to makd 
he f].ight over to Kure again, but Kebschull decided to 
take a look to see if he could land, and after a pass 
over the island we set down rather heavily in the force 
of gusty side winds. This island is great. There is 
piuch important stuff going on, study that one dan sink 
teeth into instead of banding and bleeding all the time, 
host biro, species are finishing up their breeding, but 
Sonins and Black-foots are getting underwav. Fleet took 
jnd around to his Red-tailed Tropicbird nestlings and 
■re took growth and development data from thorn. Wo found 
a marked seal on the beach with two unmarked ones. 
I saw sever Frigate encounters y One Frigate chased 
an sue c e s s fully a Red-tailed Tropicbird, another chasing 
another tropicbird forced it to* disgorge but the booty 
landed in the Soaevola and was not retrieved, 
j One Black-footed Albatross showed un in the area 
[across from the mess hall this P .11 was a bird that 
had been previously seen. Bill let his homing rat go 
1300 feet from the shack, and it was back in under 4 
jaours, a new record 
! We caught and painted 184 Blue-facod Boobies after 
phe flick, and found 3 new adults, unbanded and presumably 
hot from Kure, at least since the project. All bird 
in the S. antenna field were painted red, N. A. F. - Mxnk. 
ae re painted green. 
" / 27 October Most of the day was scent skinning, 
scraping fat, and pinning out flat mounts of Rattus 
exulans . A mangled live ?. hvpoleuca was killed and 
skeletonized. The skeleton box should be fixed ut> so 
that the wind does not move the bones about so. 
Walked part of the beach A.M. - saw no goonies or marked 
seals. One ad. i ? G. Frigate was chasing a Eqd-tailed 
Tropic Bird without success. 
The mist nets appear to catch large numbers of 
Procellariids, but have a notable lack of success with 
shore birds. 
There aifce large numbers of Bonin Island Petrels 
coming in at night, but not quite so common as on 
Midway. 
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