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£pc:it today doing odds and ends. Skinned a frozen 
Brown Booby, and in the afternoon wont gooncy catching 
with 11. and Ken® Got about 35 new birds® Tho Blade-foots 
wore displaying with high intensity in many places, and 
a eisablo number of birds have already mad© scrapes® X 
saw several groups of four birds , and one with. five 
all dancing together, A few of tho la£san 5 s are paired 
as of today, and few havo joined in with tho Black-foots • 
Cno pair beneath tho radar towor was screamingtogether 
engaging in mutual preening® 
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Today wo bagan to got ell of our equipment and mator- 
ials which havo become strewn over quite an area in to 
bones and neat for tho coning Vie stem Area's Coast Guard 
inspection which is 22-12* In the afternoon we wr.ot seal £ 
tagging, and tool along 3ill 8 s H Rube Goldberg 15 weighing 
apparatus: Bill is not a Rube for tho contraption failed, 
but to improvise we used a largo repo harness affair that 
was ‘tied uroung the chest and front flipporso It worked well 
for the first two animals, but on tho third, it placed 
too great a strain on the bones of tho chest cavity and 
crashed the lungs® We then spent the next nine hours 
frantically cldmring and autepeying the 240 animal. Bills 
notes will cover tho seal pretty well, and I will confine 
uy comments to tho examination of tho Gastrointestinal 
tract for endeparasitos® Proceeding from the esophagus 
to tho anus - In the esophagus, probably regurgitated, 
wore numbers of nematodes £ and a small number of ccstodos® 
In the stomach lining, sewn into distinct patches, wore 
the bulk of tho nematodes® Each patch contained from 3 to 
more than 50 worms, and about 200 patches ver© present on 
stomach wall 5 3 incLdo lining® Damage was superficial, but 
widespread® I estimate tho nematode population of this 
coal to bo 3a5C3 « 2,000 individuals, and I boliove that 
this P bQt %®<i£sy* *>'•*> v3»j2***Om %/WsA.Q <L £i0 CO tJ a type 
with a largo scolox and powerful suckers ( Xetrabothri idae ?) 
and was very motil© attatching itsolf to tho villus or sto- 
. reach lining and contracting its length and repeating this 
movement ovo and over. Borne venturesome individuals haa 
moved from the interior of the animal to the oral cavity in 
tho sue: hours from death until this part of tho autopsy 
was performed® Individual worms ranged in length from 
less than 1 urn* to at least 300 mm. when fully extended® 
Tho parasite was confined to tho region a ran tho beginning 
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