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11-25-63 
With today the day of National mourning for President Kenae* 
nedy, we accomplished little here. Bill was annoyed at not 
being able to get st the building, and so we cleaned up odds 
and ends. I packed up some of the supplies for Midway, organized 
C'~" the perpetual mess of equipment that comes with hurried 
use, and spent much of the day organizing my thoughts 
about the coming time to be spent at Midway. 
11-26,27-63 
We spent all of these two days erecting the building: By 
sunset the 2?th it was all up and needed only to have the trim 
painted to be finished. The plane from Midway today brought the 
rest of the wood, and so we should get the benches, tables 
and roug£ furniture constructed tomorrow: By Sunday we may be 
moved in. Bill left on the plane today, and I will leave on 
Sunday* s flight. Lately there has not been much time for birds, 
so tomorrow being thanksgiving we may rest by birding a bit. 
11-28,29-63 
We spent these two days working on the house, and by 
the evening of the 29 th we had electricity installed on 
1 a i! private 11 20 Amp. line, all of the trim painted, 
door on, windows in, and the base of the building cemented in. 
In the ebening of the 29th we packed up the next trunk of 
skins, etc. to be chipped back to D.C. Tomorrow we should get 
tables installed, and in the PM do the birding which needs to 
be done - I hope. 
11-30-63 
Today we finished the building by installing 40 sq. feet of 
shelving, painting the floor and cleaning up^ll of the tools 
that we had borrowed. In the evening I packed the gear for Midway 
and set to writing some long overdue letters. 
| 12-1-63 A© 
Up today to survey the beach before going on-the Midway. 
Black—foots seem to all have their eggs now, and I lound one 
, ) bird with two eggs in the nest. Before we got to uns west b 
beach the rains hit and cancled out further activities. In tue 
morning we had a Laysan land on the lawn of the station, kith tno 
Black-foot egg as a stimulus I began to experiment with the ^ 
lone bird as to hisyesponses to the egg, and what was important 
to it to sit on the egg. I presented the egg to the bird at a 
distance of about 4 feet. As soon as I backed away, the aloavross 
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