gives a breakdown by age and species df the 21,593 birds banded on Lisianski 
by the FOBSP. Band returns of significance and interesting movements are 
discussed in the following sections by species, 
A summary of the species recorded for the island and their probable 
status is given in Table IV. 
Black-footed Albatross ( Diomedea nigripes ) 
Current Status : Breeds annually. 
PTior Records : The species was first reported from Lisianski by Herr C. 
. Isenbeck, who visited the island in late March 1828 . The observations of 
Isenbeck were reported by Kittlitz (1834-) and the latter was translated by 
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Rothschild (1893-I9OO). The third-hand data describes an albatross "chectrmt- 
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brown, with black bill and feet," as common on Lisianski, "living on the 
flat ground." Many "young ones, Vhich were covered with grey down" were 
found. 
Henry Palmer and George Munro next observed the species while collecting 
for Rothschild on Lisianski in late June and early July I 89 I (Rothschild, 
op , cit, and Munro, op. cit . ). They found the birds nesting, with large chicks 
all along the upper margin of the Peaches (Munro, op, cit .). 
Tn March 1913 the species ■was more numerous than the Laysan Albatross 
(Bailey, 1952). Munter (1915) found the Bpecies fairly numerous in March 
1915, but not so numerous as the Laysan. The young were well developed hut 
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still in pin feathers. Nests were found scattered all over the island, hut 
more concentrated along the shores. Very few eggs Were seen and no dead 
young or adults were noted. He estimated their number at 8,000 birds. 
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Wetmore (unpub. notes, 192J) found about 1000 pairs on the island in May 1923. 
Some young were nearly fledged, while others had only the breast plumage 
