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2 Feb. (cont.) ectoparasites. The head and back were 
literally alive with them. 
The molt on this bird was interesting - a young of the 
year with red tipped head feathers - molting on the head- 
the new feathers coming in were also red tipped. I 
thought this post juvenal molt was into pure white head 
feathers, but apparently not. 
Seeing many "¥" looking Frigates - black heads, white 
breasts, in which the breast is mottled with black, and 
a prominent red Gular pouch is showing. Apparently the 
head of the male frigates turns black prior to the belly 
molt. One of these males, in Scaevola near SE beach, 
had an inflated pouch. 
Went after Bonins tonight as Dennis and Bob went after 
Red-foots. The Bonins were thick, 30 birds in SA2 alone - 
(18 of which were new. When will that spot be banded to 
completion? Never, we still have yet to tan find more 
than about 60 per cent banded after all this time. 
The SA2 cf is alone tonight - his ?, originally from 
NAF, has now been seen on two occasions in SAF - she 
really gets around. 
3 Fdb. It was the best day I've seen on Kure, no wind, 
no clouds, warm and clear. Part of the morning I spent 
working up some booby data. In the afternoon did the Lays 
sans and looked about to see what could be found — anothei 
RTTB was found that had a 605 band on it. The 
Blue-faced Booby behavior after supper was poor - 
one dictet failed to record, so man y observations were 
lost. 
After chow we had one of those thi^jgs that we have 
all heard about - a t.-iHaT Ta wvo n 1 o r»-f 
most three hours 
We spent al- 
could come down. 
Fortunately it was clear, although there was dew do 
dampen things down abit. This quake was just south 
of Attu in the far western Aleutians, and registered 
7.5 &t Cal- Tech, closer to 8.0 in Japan, which is really 
huge. The swell may have extended as far as 5* up our 
beach* 
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