T w o single unidentified boobies recorded in the NE part of the Grid 
may have been this species. 
Non-Grid: Increase of 91; twenty-two sightings representing 29 birds 
were observed over a wide area between O^hu anc ^ 200 m I* ® Johnston Atoll. 
Single immatures came aboard ship on the nights of 5 ^?n. and 6 Ian. 
Twenty-four sightings representing 81 individuals were seen along a 6£ mile *, 
line N and ENE of Johnston Atoll on 1$ January; all with b£ mi. of the Atoll 
Flocks contained up to 1^ birds , largely adult s* and most of the flocks 
were sitting on the water during very calm seas - the first time that I 
have observed this. Four birds were collected. 
Unfortunately age was not always recorded clearly but the fragmentary 
data is very interesting: of 32 birds seen some distance (over 5 0 mi.) from 
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Johnston Atoll, six were adult, 20 "immature or subadult", and six were 
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unrecorded. Of 6 I 4 . birds seen near (most within ^0 mi.) Jonnston Atoll 9 
the corresponding figures were 30 ; 17; end 17 (mostly adults from memory). 
Five sightings involving eight individuals were too distant for species 
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determination; five of these within 30 miles of Johnston Atoll# 
Brown Booby 
(No change in numbers from December.) 
Grid: Not recorded. 
Non-Grid: One was observed about 19 mi. WNV/ of Johnston Atoll on 1$ 
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January. (One was also observed on a buoy just outside Fearl Bgrbor). 
