More sooty terns land earlier, more spending the night. 
No fairy terns seen to date. Common noddies rare and How very scaree. 
Cannot find curlews at night. Several hundred turnstones, few plovers. 
Feb. 28 : Weather a little colder, windy. Banding continued. 524 
Black-foots. 11 Brown, 28 Red-foots, 11 Masked boobies, 10 Frigages. 2 
H. noddies, 1 curlew, 
5 Marchi. Weather cleared up enough to get some of our things dried out. 
First wedge-tailed shearwater fkund. Several hundred more gray-backed terns 
are here at night. Rain again tonight Tropic-birds are alightling in 
pairs during the daytime. 
571 albatrosses: 
7 Frigates 2 Brown 4 Red-footed boobies 
40 B.I. petrels 8 terns 2 tropic-birds 
11 Sooty petrels 1 wedgetailed shearwater. 
4 March: 
5 March: Traveled 00 the rest of the southern islands* Bird I. is just 
a bare sandbar, - 250 yds. Black foots and masked boobies. Sand I. is 
even smaller Grass I. has a full compliment of birds apparently. Has more 
frigates than Southeast, u waked boobies, brown boobies, 1 redgoot. Both' 
Sooty and Bonin petrels. Kl ctery is completely bare has good sized black- 
foot colony, a few Laysan, and a food number of masked boobies » Seall I 
has good vegetation, petrels, frigates both albatrosses, masked and 
broown boobies. 
Recovered puffin on Grass I. 
Saw one red footed booby and on e albatross which we had banded on South¬ 
east! . 
