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Ludvi g, James P . 
1963 
December 6 --Up at 6 and caught the early hoat to Eastern where in 
Areas I and J I put on five hundred hands. J believe that I could 
put on one thousand albatross bands a day--if I had them. Chose the 
places in area J for vegetation plots (three) which will all be rip- 
outs, or succession studies. In the P.M. caught up on paper work and 
caught up on paper work and got off a report to Bill. Then came happy 
hour. 
December 7 --All morning it.deluged, and I couldn’t do a thing. In the 
P. M. it stopped long enough for me to use the last of the No. 7 Bands. 
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Readied the strings for Vegetation plot measurements and reorganized 
the disheveled 'equipment. In evjhing I banded sixty-six Bonins. Total 
banding Midway - December 1 through 7 ’ 
932 Laysan Albatross 
687 Black-footed Albatross 
Recoveries 
11 
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221 Bonin Is. Petrels 
37 
1 unknown 
1221 Total 52 
December 8 --Wind still hjgh today, and rain is intermittent. The ants 
have gotten into my duck skins and chewed out the rictus on the two teals. 
All of a suddeS ants here by the millions. Dug up a heater, and I hope 
to dry skins quicker and then pack them in the trunks. Went to the 
overrun and collected another sick adult 9 Pintail; saw four Green-winged 
Teal, two Widge/on, two Pintails, one Shoveler. All but the teal looked 
weak. Expect to get them all before leaving here December 20. Also 
saw definitely and at close range a lesser yellowlegs. The ladder back 
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was very conspicuous. Also another different Erolia with white flanks> 
than acuminata and smaller will try to get both of these on 
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