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nearly dried up. There were at least twenty-five ducks there, five 
Mottled Ducks ("Scamp-like"), six Pintails, one ? Mallard 9, three 
Green-winged Teal (small, hut N. Am.) and five of the Green-winged 
Teal which are very small (Formosan?), and one G a ^wall ?. Many 
Sanderling, Plover Turnstones; estimate twenty-five Tattlers, sixty 
Sharp-tailed Sandpipers, and saw two Bristle-thighed Curlews. Caught 
hy hand one of the "Mottled Ducks" and skinned it in the evening. Then 
wrote letters home. 
December 3--Dp very early to go with Dr. Fisher to Eastern Island to 
compare notes and visit his study plot. After a long talk with Fisher 
and careful perjgQal of Eastern and a letter from Chan Robhins concerning 
his study plots on Eastern, I have decided to mark out two areas for 
our group to concentrate on, one on Eastern, one on Midway: These areas 
will occupy between four thousand and six thousand Albatross nests and 
will give us ample to do. 
According to Robbins scheme, these areas will be on Eastern I? andI 
J on his map. On Sand the area will be between Splintewille, the lagoon 
fuel farm and "0" club. I expect to use up our supply of bands in 
these areas. 
In the P.M. I met R. Clapp at the terminal and took him around to 
meet the various naval officers with whom we deal. 
While on Eastern in the a. m. I collected a strange Black-foot 
adult cf; very light bird showing sigUs of l) hate moult, and 2^ possible 
albinism hybridism. The bird was in an area where Laysan nests were in 
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interspersed to Black-foot nests: The bird acted and sounded like a 
Black-foot. On examination I found it to be moulting heavily. In the 
evening I skinned and salted it. 
