9 - 
Red-footed Booby (47+4 nocturnal) 
Eighty -five poroent of total eightinga were recorded in a large 
feeding flock approximately 20 miles southwest of Baker Island. 
Sightings of this species at distances of more than a few miles 
from the islands are usually in mixed feeding flocks. 
Great Frigatebird (l) 
Lesser Frigatebird (4^) 
frigatebird species (131 + 1 nocturnal) 
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* 
Frigatebird density has been decreasing constantly since the peak 
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.'/..reached in August 1966 at the height of the nesting season. Frig- 
atebirds were uniformly abundant each day during the present cruise; 
the vast majority of birds in close association with mixed feeding 
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flocks. The greatest portion of unidentified birds are considered 
to be Lesser Frigatebirds according to both the ratios of identi- 
fled birds and the numbers of each species presently breeding on 
Howland Island# 
4 
Ruddy Turnstone ,C6) 
All six individuals were seen in one flock just north of Baker 
y 
• Island on 21 November# Numbers of shorebirds greatly decreased 
from last month and most birds are considered to be on their res¬ 
pective wintering islands by this time# 
- Safrcterling (l) 
The single individual was collected just offshore Baker Island on 
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20 November. This represents the first at-sea record in the grid, 
although a few individuals are recorded each winter on the islands 
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and must.‘logically pass through the grid area# 
