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Greater Frigate - 3 
Red- tailed Tropic Bird - 3 
Following Birds Collected: 
Masked Booby - 10 
Brown Booby - 3 
Golden Plover - £ 
Ruddy Turnstone - 3 
Bristle- thighed durlew - 2 
Gray- backed Tern - 2 
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Other vertebrates: Series of skinks and gekkos collected* Estimated 20 some 
cats on the island - none shot* One turtle seen in the surf offshore* 
BAKER ISLAND 
Only one species of bird nesting (Common Noddy) and only small numbers of 
others seen boosting on the island* 
Banded: 6 Adult, 12 Immature and 37 nestlings of Common Noddy 
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Blood: Common Noddy - 10 l 
Ruddy Turnstone - 3 
Great Frigate - 1 
Cat - 4 
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Collected: Golden Plover - 8 
Ruddy Turnstone -9 
Wandering Tattler - 3 
Common Noddy - 10 
limosa sp? - 2 
Ereunetes? sp? '•» 2 
Other vertebrates: Series of skinks and gekkos collected* Estimated 
15 cats on the island* Four collected* One turtle seen every day just 
offshore. 
Numbers of birds on Howland considerably less than last time* Baker 
Has more sho rebirds including two species which we could not identify* 
Collected two of eachyspecies* 
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Equipment holding up fairly well. Tents have gone through several heavy 
rains with only minor leaks* 
Chief has been running all blood samples onj$the ship thus taking a 
large amount of work off the Smithsonian Party* 
