finally cleared at 1700. Went out and collected seme more albatross blood 
samples. His tl >0 we did not collect the birds. They seemingly suffered 
no ill effect from the heart puncture. 
Feb. 26 : Landed on Southeast Island sometime around lOOGhrs. Weather 
perfect come in the thru reef at SE corner of island. Had to come over 
sm&l rock shelf to reach brach. Fubber raft comes over shelf at high tide 
but not at low water. 
The island looks much better now that we are here. Ther is a much 
larger array of birds than I expected. Both species of albatross are very 
abundant. Laysan predominating. All 9 species of aboobies are nesting althou^i 
none are numerous. Frigate birds arealso nesting. Binin Island petrels ap¬ 
parently have young. Christamaa I. shearwaters ore here, num ers as eyt 
undertermined k Saty terns gathered continuously all day until untold 
thousands were present at sunset. A few were to alight on the ground. A 
few tattlers and one Bonder ling . A few gray-backed terns are present. Shore- 
birds include plovers, tumstones, curlews, a few ttlers and one senderling. 
Olle u/l gull shor another present. 
Went out at night, HBanded 200 sooty petrels, 64 Bonlns. Only 2 Xmas 
shearwaters on island, 47 Red-footed boobies. 27 Brown boobies, 7 m:sked 200 
Black-footed albatrosses. Assorted plovers, tumstones and terns. 19 frigates 
Apparently many more boobies caning in after dark. Large number of sooty 
terns landed late at night. Apparently started going out about 0530 to down. 
Feb. 27: Weather still holding good, altho windy. Banding continues. More 
old band recoveries. 454 albatrosses. 100 sooty a dn 3 6 Bonin I. petrels 
19 Bonin, 5'3 Masked, 21 Red-footed boobies, 7 Frigates, 7 mipc. terns, 8 
tumstones. Ho shearwaters seen. Masked boobies and Red-foots still laying, 
browns hatching. BOoth species of petrels above common for Booties. 
