* 
Late in the afternoon I went hunting for a few minutes and 
noted a flock of Hawaiian Noddys feeding alone the shore: I 
waited 10 minutes until they were done and then shot three, and 
tills decision proved to be fortunate as I recovered 15 fish from 
two of them, and from one prepared as a skeleton I found 9 rather 
large stomach nematodes ( Probably Spiurids ) whic res&mble the 
( ) North American Genus Physaloctsra in many gross physical 
'respects. Froze the other two, and Got the go ahead from 
Joe Goodwin to resume skinning at least during the bad weather. 
Late in the evening worked on the MeBee cards trying to cat ch 
up on the 50 °? so specimens which I have not yet put on these 
cards. One measurement I do not understand is that of measuring 
the tail length rather that total body length: All the measuring 
schemes for bird skins that I have come across measure tip of 
bill to tip of tail feathers, and none do tail feather length. 
I would hope that this is a misprint on the cards, as X have 
been measuring total length instead. 
1C~2?~63 
Spent such of this day huntings Saw little of rusts cue opt 
a candcrling, and two mors Frolic « Relaxed in the afternoon 
ana set our new liason officer at Midway and it appears that 
our good relations there will be continued# Skinned several 
birds in 'the P*K» 
10-28-63 
Rained most of tho £1 today* and after it stopped FH11 
and I went to erect tho tower on tho North-West ^each* I did 
somo more hunting and skinning today getting two tumstonos 
when shooting at an Erolia* Apparently the Erolia 1 s here are 
mostly Sharp-tails ( acuminata ) and they aro reasonably 
abundant there being perhaps as many as 20 individulas on the 
island. 
10-29-63 
Up this £1 and spent several hours in tho North Tower 
observing that ond of tho island© In tho afternoon I delivered 
an information lecture to tho men, and than went hunting again 
as my watch was out of commission keeping mo from the observe- 
ticn tower* W© sot up the mist nets and in tho evening 
caught quite a number of plovers, ona tumstono, and a 
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper* In tho evening I skinned thrso birds 
and began to weigh and measure each of tho shore-birds caught: 
By weighing and measuring those snail shorebirds we ought to 
gather a lot of information without having to kill tho birds* 
Each bird has a 1-IacBeo card on which up to 20 recaptures can 
bo noted* Soon wo should have a marked population of thes© hero « 
