Fifty-first Progress Report—-Kure Atoll p 2. 
9. Routine banding, blood sampling, and ectoparasite work. The Berlese 
funnels are being run continuously. Emphasis is being placed on banding as 
many breeding Sooty Terns as possible. To date, 500 birds on eggs have 
been banded. 
B. Collections 
1. Blood: 
2. Berlese: 
3. Vertebrate 
Lays an Albatross 
Sooty Shearwater 
Red-footed Booby 
Great Frigatebird 
Sooty Tern 
Black-footed Albatross nest 
Laysan Albatross nest 
Red-tailed Albatross nest 
Blue-faced Booby nest 
Brown Booby nest 
Red-footed Booby nest 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater burrow 
Sooty Tern nest 
Noddy Tern nest 
Sooty Shearwater, skin 
Great Frigatebird, skin 
Polynesian Rat 
37 
1 
5 
6 
42 
91 
3 
6 
3 
6 
3 
1 
3 
18 
J. 
48 
3 
1 
87 
C. Recoveries and Returns: 
Laysan Albatross 
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
Red-tailed Tropicbird 
Blue-faced Booby 
Brown Booby 
Red-footed Booby 
Grgat Frigatebird 
Sooty Tern 
Noddy Tern 
11 
1 
34 
2 
3 
29 
19 
172 
2 
273 
D. Interisland Movement 
Blue-faced Booby- 568-72322 Banded on French Frigate Shoals in 
August 1965* ^'he bird was first caught on 20 May and then again on 28 May. 
Both times it was on the northwest beach in the company of another subadult 
