I also saw but did r.ot hit [ 33 ] an adult <S ( ? ) Gadwall 
v uti t he largo very c onspicuous speculum. __ 
a recuperating bird ia.-u.er: ifeur^dlTsSould sea me when I'm 
in form and healthy. The corpses were frozen* 
About neon I called Bill at Kur© and read him the 
message and told him of the situation on 2253 Midway and 
hoped to make the plane back tomorrow. In the evening I 
...... took in the Sophia Loren flick at the 0 club and got 
v cornered by the CO of the Coast Guard Inspectors who 
bought me enough CC to light the way home and I stumbled 
into bed about 12 PM after trying to see the petrel popu*. 
lations once more: I couldn't manage it* 
11—14—Gp 
After an interesting ride over on the UF where I 
stoically cursed every bottle of CC ever made, I arrived 
home at lC00 o The Navy today at Bill's suggestion provided 
us with a mail and wide-angle lens camera to photograph the 
island vertically from the air* Spent the rest of the AM 
nursing the head and getting the bir ds collected at Midway 
and my gear in order* After lunch and a soaking of my 
thumb for an hour ( It acted up again today, ) we three 
trundled off to £lr4 gooneys. Three Black-foots had eggs, 
and one had fresh blood on it marking it as several hours 
old: Monday was the last time we worked this beach, and 
the oldest egg is no more than 72 hours laid. We had our 
difficulties today, net the least of which was my damn 
thumb that bothered me all day - especially when the gooneys 
clomped on it. We pollected one adult fern-ale Laysan which 
apparently had bef injured by some agent for it died when 
wo handled it and on autopsy wo found an otherwise normal 
body with a large^contused left side* In the evening instead 
of watching the Gculs in Hitchcock's Psyco flick Ken and I 
played ghouls by skeletonizing her ( the albatross ) and 
performing a complete autopsy: Notes of interest from the 
autopsy were: 62 mm largest ovem ( How would that look on 
a warbler lable? ), with the next two largest ova at 4 and 
3«5 nm respectively? Weight 2997*8 gras; Moderate Fat; In 
the stomach were 6 Squid beaks and only liver bile and 
a stone; In the intestine which was devoid of food were two 
cestodes - On© a ver£ small one of the approximate size of 
she 1 3 homes Hymenolepi s nana ( Maximum length 60 mm, 
-Maximum width o 5 mm, vary small scolex ) was located from 
the stomach posterior for 16 - 18 inches; this cestodo 
then gave .way to a larger ( Maximum length 140 mm*. Maximum 
Width 3 £za» ) nor© robust worm with a large scolex ( 1*5 2C 
2*0 mm. Approximated 10,000 of the small and 125-200 of 
larger worms were presens in this host. The larger worms 
