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transfers, etc. for our project. Fortunately I had a copy of Its. 
(31 Dec. 1962) from Suddeth to Humphey which contained the necessaary 
information. He has inflated shippi g confirmation and planning. 
Do not know as yet if birds can be put on TIA flights. 
We will need orders for Sibley to take the birds back on MATS. 
To my knowledge we do not have these. 
After lunch s horned puffin was brought in alive by Scott Den- 
tall, son of the exeutive officer. He found it on the beach. We 
photographed, banded and released the bird. It could not fly but 
did swim out in the water and dove several times in quick succession 
appeared ell right. 
Weather perfect, 
25 Weather forecasts Surface wind WSW'ly 20-3© knots, with 
gusts to 40-45 knots. Max. temp 71 degrees sunrise 0739 sunset 1821. 
High tides 0429-1628 Low tides 1135-2150. 
27: Rainy today. Looked at a young red-tailed tropic bird in nest. 
Set up two nets and banded about tvro dozen Fairy terns and Hawaiian 
noddles. Both species ere fairly numerous. The noddies are gstheer- 
ing nest material. The fairies are very tame. I have not been able 
to set one to land on my hand yet, but they come within a foot. 
This pm we took an Lem to Eastern Island. Walked the beach 
for about half of it. Saw 2 blue-f=ced boobies and numerous red¬ 
footed boobies. The red-foots were nesting in the Scaevole, some 
eggs were laid but no nestings. Saw one frigate-birds (9)» a few 
tattlers, more plovers end tumstones. Looked at Harvey Fishers 
study area. Also saw a couple of red-tailed troplcblrds. Ro 
