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frut in snail numbers, member of this biological community. Good 
field marks for this speeios include the prominent rusty cap, 
white eyolino, and ruddish scapular feathers. Tho breast is huffy 
with fairly sharp division to a white belly© It feeds on lawns 
with tho turnstones, but is slower of movement, usually falls 
r to call when flushed and will lot observers approach quit© 
closely which the plovers and tumstones do not do. It flys, 
straight and level when flushed and in a flock of turnstonos ( 
( where it is commonly found } it is loss robust of body and is 
W*** 1 w .**•** ^ W . 
In tho afternoon wo also took Ken down through tho antenna 
fields and tho rat and petrel- shearwater study area A. I think 
that Ken in a bit auased. by the Coast Guard boro, and how much 
wo havo boon able to set up and operate. And, if wa can got the 
building and manpower, wa shall do much more. 
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Today Ken and I worked in the Shearwater-petrel Study area 
A, gridding it to 53 ft* intervals, and counting the numbers of 
burrows, and scrapes in each area© A total of $66 places were 
located whore there were burrows or scrapes ( 333 Active burrows, 
. 151 In stive burrows, and 82 scrapes. Average density per 
ploo of m ~ places wee 35, with maxLmumm of 84 and a rri irtosa of 
8 in individual grids* 
Tho steel tape broke this morning and we attempted to sub¬ 
stitute a ICO it* pieeo of nylon rope, but this did not work 
well because of tho tendency of nylon to stretch under stresss 
Use heap rope for such a purpose* One of the Co a s tguardss.cn with 
the construction crew managed to run through a mist net, mini ng 
it, and I had to sew the bottom bar on another of the hots* Soon 
our Shorebird netting may come to a screeching halt if nets 
continue to bo infixed in these manners. Concerning Frolic 5 s, Ken 
xd I spotted a group of throe today, crxo of which was definite- 
.y a sharp-tail, and the other two may have been that also. Bill 
0captured one, and any time four birds are seen, there are like* 
ly many mere around. 
Late in the afternoon we want looking for Black-foots and 
softs., getting seven and four of each respectively, and seeing 
14 at that time. The deluge of birds is being forshadowed 
fcy'a sixxeablo trickle. In the evening we went Banding and for 
the most part this proved to be completely abortive. The light 
intensity was very high ( probably several lumens ) and even h 
there was ICO percent cloud cover, the full moon lit. up tae 
beaches so that w© did net need nsadlights to find ©ur way 
about tho island. In throe hours five men tagged 38 birds, a 
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