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It blew hard all night and with it raining in the morning 
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we slept in a bit. Then spent most of the day working on the 
banding schedules: By following precisely the Manual’s and Bin- 
ions directives on reporting the bandings, it took me all day 
to work up the schedules, a job which in my own bandings has 
C ) never taken more than an hour or two atmost for a similar 
V “ / number of birds. proceedures that we are using 
are designed for the man who tags 200 birds a year, not in the 
thousands as the project does. Late in the PM we went seal 
tagging, and again after dinner: we got 14 new ones, and saw 
only 11 tagged ones. It is my impression that with over 60 
animals tagged, we have marked less than half the animals using 
this atoll, and I believe that there are a lot of seals here 
that we will not see unjhLl the C.G. runabout is repairedand get 
over to Sand Island. We also caught several rats which we 
worked up in the evening. Bill hopes to get his backlog of 
frozen rats skinned and autopsyed before the weekend: With the 
bad weather iminent, we will probably accomplish this. In our 
travels today I noted no unusual birds, but that the Frigates 
and Rea-footed Boobys in particular were soaring in the heavy 
winds. 
BANDING TOTALS FOR KCJRE ATOLL TO DATS - 
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Masked Booby 
Brown Booby 
Red-footed Booby 
Frigate-birds 
Wedgetailed 
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Shearwaters 
Christmas Island 
6 
Shearwaters 
Bonin Id. Petrel 
87 
Red-tailed 
22 
Trooicbird 
Fairy Tern 
2 
Hawaiian Noddy 
17 
Common Noddy 
40 
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! And the winds continue to blow. The High wind velocity 
: of 20 to 30 knots is still up and has been all day with inter- 
| mittant rain squalls also. Spent the AM making the final drawings 
j for the vegitation maps of the shearwater petrel study areas, 
1 and all afternoon working on rat skins with Bill. We finally 
j got the materials requested from S.I. today, and I spent quite 
