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18 Fob. (cont. ) there were no RFB in the roost, and the 
rain came down 0 At 1850 I made the last roost count - 
there were 2 7 RFB (mostly by SS beach) and 14 Frigates 
in the roost, and 24 Frigates still soaring over SE 
beach where they had been all day 0 
Frigates were chasing RTTB today, on one occasion 
an Ad. + chased a RTTB so vigorously that it hit the 
water and bounced abo ;t 10-15' before stopping. The 
jFrigate picked something up off the water and flew off. 
It was raining harder after dark, so we stayed in this 
evening. 
We got letters from both Bill and Chuck, both urging 
more granting agency type action - so, a big push will 
get underway fro more blood and ectoparasites. We are 
and have been pperatihg at full capacity re. Berleze - 
13/ day is all we have equipment fro. 
19 Fbb. Today we made a big push to band at least 100 
layoans - w ^got 114 ui and got returns 
on another -^0 birds. Boy aai I tiredj we will continue 
to work with Laysans until a reasonable percentage of the 
oirds here have been handled. There are still a good 
60-70 per cent unmarked bird on the island. 
Alan and I bled 25 laysans, one of which was hung 
up on ST^y wires and lost a wing. We took ectoparasit* 
es the new way (vials according to location) and 
dispateaed the bird. He was too damaged - we never 
found the wing - to be of any further use. 
After chow I did Blue-faced Booby behavior, and Bob 
and Alan set the traps for our autopsy rats, 
20 Feb. Shorebird and seals census occupied a good 
portion of the day - we all managed to finish prior to 
the rains which came and continued on into the night. 
We counted 466 laysans with active nests, or a drop of 
69 from the previous week. A total of 92 per cent" of 
these had chicks (427 roughly), an increase from 80 
per cent from last week. 
I Tnere w'as an increase from 1 Wandering Tattler to 
10 this week. This was thea: first week in the last three 
when the surf has been breaking over the reef, and the 
high number ss of Tattlers is most likely due to the 
inaccesibilyty of the reef to them. We, in fun, pre- 
dicted before we did the count that a high number of 
1 at tiers would be found. Alan did the beach, and his 
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