and Christmas were incomplete because of lack of transportation, lack of 
time and large size of the islands. The major banding emphasis was on Sooty 
Terns and these make up the bulk of the 70,429 birds banded. Band returns were 
very few but included some interesting interisland returns. The first records 
of birds moving from the Hawaiian Islands to the Equatorial Islands were pro¬ 
vided by a Hawaiian Noddy banded on r earl and Hermes and recovered on Enderbury 
and a Wedge-tailed Shearwater banded on the Oahu offshore islands and 
recovered on Phoenix Island. Blue-faced Boobies were recaptured on Vostok 
and Malden which had been banded on Jarvis and the various Phoenix Islands. 
The small number of Sooty Tern returns indicates very little interisland move¬ 
ment as well as the small percentage of terns banded. On Christmas Island 
almost no interchange of birds was found between NW Point colony (20,000 banded) 
and Cook Island colony. 
Of 354 birds collected, 277 were prepared as skins, 22 as skeletons and 
55 as alcoholics. These specimens include a number of new records for 
previously visited islands as well as the first large collections from 
Tongareva, Vostok, Caroline, Starbuck and Malden. 
Mammals were collected on Hull, Canton, Vostok and Caroline. All tentatively 
identified as Battus exulans ♦ 
Blood samples were taken on 9 islands and at sea. A total 01 1035 
samples were obtained from 13 species. 
Berlese samples were collected from 127 different nests and over 
100 individual birds were examined for ectoparasites. 
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Fish collections were made on Tongareva, Vostok, Caroline, Starbuck, 
Malden afad Fanning and a total of 15 drums of fish were preserved. *ish had 
not previously been collected by the project from these islands. 
In summary SIC # 8 banded more birds, collected more birds, blood, 
berlese samples, ectoparasites, and fish than any previous trip and spent 
more time at sea and less on the islands than any recent ATF trip. 
