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Usually C s°eTi 1 flocks of from 2 to 5 birds would fly over 
the reef to pother . Ssa This happened repeatedly during 
the hours from 1030 to j. 300 violi tno Red— xoots, and is 
probably* correlated auso with wn.no. direction, wnich was 
from tho South today • 
Tho Brown Boobies took a difforont pattorn, i lying 
over the West or inside beach along the Scaevola, 
flyin^ alon the. beach, over south point, and then 
continuing along the inside of the reef until they dis- 
appeared from sight near Sand Island. Do all ohe species 
have their own route? This can o e checked. Is t .e 
route correlated with the wind or rather stereotyped 
and -independent of wind direction? There is procaoly 
a general pattern overlaying a wide degree of individual 
variety - time will tell. 
After dark 5 Wedge-tailes (Imm. ) flew into the side 
of the building near our quarters - prob. attracted to 
the light The young wedge-tails are? all losing down, 
several of todays study chicks had no quills alive, and 
i tonight increased activity of the young is noted. Most 
'will probably be gone very quickly now. _ , 
Copulations were soen in the nlack Gooney for tne 
first time. Several pairs now have nests - shallow 
scrapes in the sand lined with plucked, green Scaevo^a 
leaves. Laysans continue to arrive, but no displaying 
is yet evident* 
13 Nov. The shorebird count occupied a goo.d part of the 
morning. I had the shore, and counted 31 -Golden Plover, 
bQ -Ruddy Turnstones, 10 Wandering Tattler, 7 o<j.ndex lings, 
SL Bristle-thighed Curlew, 4 3 Common Noddy Terns, 18 
ilaysans. and close to 150 Balck— xooted Albai^ross.^ 
j Also on the beach were 17 Seals, tne uags Oi 8 Ox 
them were read. One seal had a broken- tag. No. 208 
has new pellage, and is very clean and shiny .Looking in 
a deep p-rey, rather th„n brown, that she has. Other 
tags 333, 214, 276, 342, 231, 202, add 2X9. 
I banded a mist netted Ruddy Turnstone, finishing 
another • string of 2 bands - 642-00300. Two Sooty ^S^orm 
petrels were found in the study area 2 where Bob found 
them several days ago. One bird we had banded 9 ca*ys 
go 642-00292.- The other was and unoandect 
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