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22 Feb. (cent.) central ^ost and boosts our total 
number handled there aone to 1318 birds. We stiii 
a good percentage of the birds nere un ^ a g UrQ * hoDe that 
th/t tomorrow will dawn clear 
f0r K ost O^th^laysan study nests are now unattended. 
There were no new HLue-faced Booby nests xn the NAS . 
We found another antanna casualty today ‘ 4 on ®'^ g ® 
Tlonin We found kh one yesterday, as well »» A Lays^n 
that was knocked silly - probably damage to the cerebell 
Se blrt'f balance was shot, the hind legs were p.rsW. 
and It could make only uncoordinated movements of the 
winrs. The bird was extramelly accurate in pc^ng 
Tntruders however. He was bled, as was one Bonin. We 
coSd not’draw blood from the wounded Benins with the 
small hypodermic needles; the 1 l/2 needle 7 
succeeded in getting 5 cc. from one of the bird.s 
23 Feb. Today the morning and an hour and a half after 
[lunch was , spent ^"Sos! IrZls 
handled^apoeared to be coming into or already arrived 
S breeding condition. Almost all the males had well 
developed cremasters and testes, and quite a few had 
enlarged cauda epididymis. There seemed to be « a ±rtu 
of mites - very few of the animals handled nad mite , 
and mites two were not at all abundant. 
Almost all the females had perforate vulvas and 
of those most were swollen and purplish in color. 
female had a sperm plug across tne within, 
lactating, and 3 had embryos that J a t 
popiSticnf C do y not look so thin st the present 
ti5® either. If more food is becoming available 
them we should? see a decrease in the number of y 
deaths in the antenna field**. 0» y 7 
"hnriciV’ O '£ wlli-Cll 20 v©!*© I1GW. • x j 
Before dinner Bob censused the painted V J* 
Laysans in the Central roost, and found that i6* out 
of^2$l or 64.8 per cent, of the birds there have been 
pfinted. We have painted 1318 birds there so a s^ple 
calculation says that there should be about 2028 bxras 
