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May 8: This morning Fred went out on the garbage boat about 2 mi. west 
of Sand I. He saw wedge-tailed shearwaters Christmas I. shearwaters, Bonin 
I Petrels, amny tropicbirds resting on water, Haw. noddies, fairy and sooty 
in close enough to collect. lie did not collect any. X checked the Laysan 
chicks on the hospital study plot for @Chan. 
Took photographs of noddies and fairy terns, gooney chicks and several 
spp in air. 
Flew to Kure in afternoon hearty welcome from Dave McCann. Found that Chan 
had left a supply of bands here so we are going to make use of them. 
Tropic-birds are very numerous on the island and we nesting everywhere 
All three species of boobies are here, numerous frigates. Wedge-tails 
here one pair copulalng (?). How. and Brown noddies, no fairy terns 
seen as yet. Sooties and grey-backs here. 
May 9; Misty and rainy today. Banded 100 red-tailed trpic-birds with 
bands left here previouly by Chan Robbins. Tropic-birds are very plentifly 
nesting everywhere beneath the scaevola. Probably about 1000 nesting pairs. 
About half with eggs, about middle size, downy. 
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There seem to be relatively few albatrosses here, especially black- 
foots. Wedge-tailed shearwaters are quite common. Digging burrows beneath 
the scaevola whereever the underbrush is quite heavy. Pairs of birds 
are everywhere, moaning and groaning. A very few Bonin Island shearwaters 
are in. Ho sooty petrels or Bulwer’s petrels sen as yet. 
Frigate-birds are fairly numerous, some nests with eggs. Red-footed boobies 
are the most common, fairly numerous, some nest with eggs no chicks. Masked 
boobies are common in antemae field. All eggs hatched, some chicks very large 
but not fledged. Brown boobies seen in air and on beaches. 
Gray-back terns not nesting yet. Sooties not nesting neither rare 
either noddy. 
