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with about 125 eggs. The report for August 1964 lists 300 adults roosting 
in the Scaevola , ironwoods, and palm trees, but further states that no 
evidence of nesting was found. This is certainly in error, for the following 
month 298 adults, 103 -immatures, and 17 nestlings were counted, and the 
island population placed at 500 birds. In March 1965 an estimated 1000 
birds roosted over much of the Scaevola , and in the ironwoods, but only a 
few eggs were found. The following July an estimated 500 adults and 200 
nestlings were found, with nests scattered through the Scaevola of the 
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interior. 
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Reproduct ion : Palmer (Rothschild, og. cit . ) noted birds nesting in late 
June I 89 I. Munter (op. cit .) found a -few nests with eggs or young birds 
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in March 1915* Wetmore (unpub. notes, 1923 ) found two eggs in May 1923* 
and Woodside and Kramer (op. cit . ) reported nesting in March 1961 . 
The species Was nesting, With eggs, in March 1963* and about 125 eggs 
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were present in March 1964. Only a few eggs were found in March 1965. In 
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September 1964 103 immatures and 17 nestlings were counted. An estimated 
200 nestlings, ranging from half grown to nearly fledged, were found In 
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Egg laying begins in March and probably continues Into May on Kure 
Atoll, 300 miles to the northwest. Most eggs hatch in June and early July 
on Kure and the young are flying by early September. The breeding cycle is 
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probably similar on Lisianski. 
Movement : An adult banded at French Frigate Shoals, 500 miles eastward in 
the Leeward Chain, in June 1963 , was recaptured on Lisianski in March 1964. 
Other Specimens : TJSKM 300909, cT, 19 May 1923; USRM 300910, <f, 19 May 1923 . 
