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on the ground, and also in shrubbery and in the few trees. About 400 
immature# were present in August 1964. The survey reported 300 nestlings 
in July I965. Nests were found in the Scaevola and on the ground. Eggs 
and immature# Were also found, but their number was not estimated. 
On Kure Atoll, $00 miles to the northwest, egg-laying occurs primarily 
in May and June, and hatching in June and July. Most nestlings fledge by 
late August. The cycle on Lisianski appears to be earlier than on Kure. 
Movement : A local banded on Whale Island, French Frigate Shoals, in June 
1963 vas recaptured as an adult on Lisianski in August 1964. The islands 
are about 500 miles apart. 
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Other Specimens ; USNM 300518, cf, 1? May 1923; USNM 300519/ cf, 17 May 1923; 
tfSNM 300658, xf, 13 April 1923. 
POBSF Specimens : USNM 495541, 9, ovary 11 x 7 xnm., largest ovum 2.5 mm*, 
17 July 1965. 
Hawaiian Noddy Tern (Anous minutus ) 
Current Status : Breeds annually, probably resident. 
Prior Records: Henry Palmer found a few birds on Lisianski in late June 189! 
(Rothschild, 1893-1900). Two nesting colonies, comprising perhaps 1000 birds, 
Were found near the shacks on Lisianski in March 1915 (Munter, o|>. cit .). 
Fairly well made nests were placed in small shrubs or plants or on platforms 
built up from the ground. Eggs and nestlings were found. Wetmore (unpub. 
notes, 1923) found about 1000 adults on the beaches in May 1923 a but no 
nests. Sixty to 80 birds were present in March 195^ (Richardson, pers. comm.). 
Roosting birds were found in the ironwoods in March 1961 (Woodside and 
KPamer, og. cit .) 
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