Janies P. Ludwig 
1963 
3 
±orty with bare hands and stealth. Got six more 
returns for a rotal of U to date on this species. 
Alisting of the returns with status follows: : 
No. 623-43182 skinned September 7 , 1963 
No. 643-48706 skinned September 6 , 1963 
No. 643-48715 skinned September 7 , 1963 
No. 643-49098 skinned September 7 , 1963 
No. 643-74306 skinned September 6 , 1963 
No. 643-48355 trapped and released September 8 , 1963 
643-48811 trapped and released September 8 , 1963 
643-49083 trapped and realeased September 8 , 1963 
64 0-49086 trapped and released September 8, 1963 
64p-74306 trapped and released September 7 , 1963 
643-74309 trapped and released September 8 , 1963 
These crazy Petrels have territory at night. They 
fight when they come together and chase intruding 
Shearwaters away with their terrible moaning call 
(they remind me of trumpeting Herring Bulls after a ' 
successful territorial dispute.) They walk 
around in the grass groaning loudly, and will 
approach one another and fight. The victor 
groans xhe looser squeals, flies off and later 
settles on a new spot. These birds dig some also, 
although some just sit in the grass. 
Midway Island, September 9 
Spent most of the morning doing odds and 
ends and making skeletons of a Fairy Tern and 
Tropicbird caught late last night after chasing the 
Shearwaters. Tropicbirds again absent until 0930 
when they begin to appear over the island. Peak 
of their activity at 1300 today. Many adults on 
the ground sitting with chicks by 1500. However, 
most must return to sea as last evening I found only 
one adult with a very small chick at 2400 while 
locating 23 chicks beneath the brush. Most chicks 
are at the feathering-out stage of their development. 
No eggs or new chicks of any species yet found here. 
Got five letters in the mail and sat down to 
glut my scenses on news from home. 
Here endeth chapter one of the Epistle of Ludwig. 
