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JOURNAL 
Marshall/ 1964 Southeast Is., Pearl and Hermes 
Aug , 18 cont. North Is. 
500 Commop Noddy 
700 Hawaiian:Noddies 
2 Faj~y Terns / 
1000-1500 Sooty Terns . 
15 Grey back terns 
75 Great Frigates 
1 laysan Albatross Nestling 
13 Tropic birds 
9 Masked Booby 
9 Turnstones 
.4 Vedgetails, there was of a large nocturnal roosting site. 
Veo looked across at Kittery and saw : 
2 Seals 
1 Great Frigate 
1 Grey Back tern 
2 Masked Booby (ADULT) 
3 Imm. Masked Booby 
1 Brown Booby 
It was decided that there wasnot enough life on Kittery to merit 
a trip over, so when we had finished our banding, we loaded up the 
raft and headed out through truel treacherous surf to the shi^». 
Ve showered and ate on board. Ve went back to Southeast Is,,.. _ 
and examined the dead Albatross for bands, and counted thesd until 
dark. Ve counted 800 dead, most in large piles in the washed 
area, midisland on seaward side. All except Paul sacked out till 
12:30, morning of the 19th. Paul banded more Greybacks and_100 Vedgetai| 
August 19 Paul came in at 12:30 Am and we all got up and wen. 
out to band 500 more Vedgetails and 100 more Sooty Terns. Ve '' 
just barely finished the Sooiries before dawn. Ve went back to 
camp and slept for a few minutes before taking down the camp. 
Ve had everything packed and in good order by 8: OOAm when the - * ^ _ 
boat came in. Ve departed for North Island, arr ivingat_ S. Norhh 
Is. at 11:00 after braving the drenching spray for over t'woTio'ur so ~ 
Ve counted 26 Seals and 10 Masked Booby (2 returns) and had^a - 
great time playing with two baby seals while we attempted tcr^"- 71 
make radio contact with the ship. After the wonderful record of 
service given by the radios up to that point we were disappointed 
to fond that we could not make contact. Ve then headed on to 
North island to set up camp, an operation that took unreasonably 
long because of too many chiefs. Ve finally made contact, by 
changing our frequency. (Doug had Dropped the radio, so it had |^ 
lost the setting that I had tuned it to on the shipf After eating 
we took a well deserved nap until 7:30PM. The moon was too bright 
to even consider banding to we went back to sleep after trying 
to band,until 2:00AM morning of the 20th. 
a bright moon to band 400 Vedgetails 
a large portion ofthe Booby 
August 20 Up at 2:00 Am with 
finishing at 3:30, then we did 
population. In the morning I banded 49 frigate nestlings and 
helped Paul and Ken scare up 100 Common Noddy nestlings. Merrill 
added to our knowledge by taking habitat photos. Left Island 
and were underway to ship by 11:00 A tit in the calmest sea I’ve 
ever. Repacked and stored equipment, dried clothing, showered 
i * -1 r\ r • • i 
etc. Ship underway for Lisianshi by 1600. Had 
a bad argument 
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