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pitifully sma ll number* However, w© did capture como intorcstiag 
birds* Cr.o 3?own Booby* Baud No® 697-70630, was captured in .. 
subadult plumage* Head, nod: and bad: dark brown, a fear under 
wins eovorots end the whole belly a mettled brown. The plumage 
is essentailly that of an adult with a sprinkling of brown on 
tho belly* but nach loss brown than in tho Juvenals* 
I also noted' that all the boobys were molting at tho moment* 
l.acood and Browns in g er e acyiar cm o losing their flight and 
tail feathers* Brown 1 Booby No* was captured, and of tho 
*-••**• v %*n ..*, mC«* s oii *««ca side of center, tho Fight first and 
Left third feather were tho last to grow back, and growth was 
assysotrical© Brown Esoby No 697-24528 was growing in no; _ 
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na first primary war© tho last to grow 
in, and growth was symmetrical on both wings® I also noted that 
Eed-foots have two less toil feathers than Browns ( 6 to a side 
as opposed to 7 to a side, 12 and Ik total* )» Frigates are also 
.»■**<*. heavily new with some adults missing as aany as throe 
primary feathers at once* 
11-2-63 
Slept in this Pil and then up to leek for Black-foots around 
, the island and found only birds which wo have already done: 
Only five birds were located on tho island, and 10 seals were 
seen* Rained most of last night and it is still up to that 
sporadically today* Caught up on letters, notes, and some of tho 
records and unfroso several of tho birds for skinning tonight* 
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H-£3-63 
Spent today cleaning up odds and ends- laundry, skinning 
a tattler, and working up several more skeletons which the 
dermestids had finished with* We now have eight completely 
cleaned skeletons ready for shipment, back, and an equal number 
being cleaned* I gave Ken a losson on Bird skinning and was 
gratified at the results: He did remarkably well for his first 
attempt, although it took him nearly four hours* Got s five 
more gooneys today, and again saw several unhanded sharp-tails* 
In our travels of the past few days we have not seen the two 
/ - duckss Neither have wo soon any of the Laysan .Aioatross* 
v.With tho lab back in operation we are able to pick away 
it the accumulation of skinning to b© dona, and now only three 
Boobys and a tropiebird remain frozen* Lai© in the afternoon 
we set the rat traps* 
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