% 
69 
6 Nov. Shore-bird count in the morning. -e tried 
drugging a monk seal this af&ernoon, but only succeeded 
in killing it. Although the dose Sernyl was /3 
of that used successfully on fur seaxs, it killed _ ^ 
monk seal within 45 minutes - pernaps ohe naxr seals 
are much less tolerant than the ^jeals, or perhaps 
■ this is simply a cnaracnensoic ox the. Monk? 
The second chick of the Brown Booby pair died, but the 
-'•i-rst still lives, -^athough today it looked weak.-^q 
SlsLedth. boobies and Sedge-tails today - one wedge- 
tail has now lost aax i^s down# 
7 Nov. Again more paper*- work. Helped Bob witn his 
Tropicbird growth and development data. Squared away 
the final Blue-faded Booby material - we are now up to da^e. 
After chow the crew jumped me and I got all painted, snave , 
and banded. I was a god-awful mess, and now have no hair ate 
p the head. 
8 Nov. C’nuck arrived A.M. We walked all over the island 
showing him around, the view from the towers, .tagge** one 
seal. Did the Noddy Chick, only one now remains. _ 
chow we read all remaining Black-foot numbers, painting the 
heads of all birds with green paint. Bob round ** fisn o*+xs, 
no one else found any - ugh. 
9 Nov. At 1200 a large group of Frogates left the North Eoint 
roGst area, and a squallmoved slowly toward one island; *e 
did not know if it would hit us, but 'cook shelter anyway, 
basically because of the flight away_ from the island ox the 
Frigates. ]5 minutes later the squall hit, ana^axoer it ru.d 
passed a long phalanz of about 200 Frigates driloed back over 
0^1530 about 300-400 C. Noddy Te ms were sitting in 
a tight clump on the beach near K2 with 1 ad. Sootv iern, 
nearby were 3 Ruddy Turnsones and 6 Sander- ng.s 
At 1800 Seal 218 was found in the Scaevola near S30 . 
i“ 2100 wo went Wing. 168 VJedgetails, xncl^g ->* 
voung. 1 C. Noddy, 3 Brown Boobies, and 16 narang^ • 
Petrels were Wed. There were and 5 
raS^iS, SS-V * - burrow 
entrance. 
