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swimming in the Isgoon. We could only detect albetross on the ground, 
end some of the here send islands had no, or only © few, birds on them* 
I noted one frigate bird In the sir, and we saw some masked boobies. The 
islands are all very low; maybe 6 or 6 f©et f and we will h ve a water 
problem in bad we-ther* 
We had an hour at Kure f and Bob and I walked a ways along the 
southeast bed and then cut north around the antenna and back to the 
buildings* We saw several seals on the beach. There were sore black-* 
foots nesting along the beach, and inland we noted a few boobies (masked) 
and some Laysan Albatross nesting* One booby caught up two squid (10-12 
in) one flying fish of equal size, end two mullet-type fish. This was on© 
of two birds we caught together to get their band numbers, which were 
667-35062 end 607-24507. There seem to be many rats on this island; we saw 
several running about in the vegetation and Bob observed 8 feeding on a 
fairy tern carcass. We noted about a dozen redl tailed tropicbirds in 
the air about the island, and observed golden plovers on the lawns 
around the buildings. There were numerous (30-40) frigate birds in the 
air along the east—west crest on the north aide of the island. A brown 
booby was noted sitting on the pier, and some immature (brown pelage) 
boobies were noted inland in the vegetation* I picked up another horned 
puffin on the beach, which turned out ot be good enough to make into a 
skin. 
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We had "been told that a seal had been horn during the night end 
that the sailors had handled it end seen the afterbirth this morning, so 
we went to try to photograph it. We found it dead at the water's edge, with 
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and adult c? and 9 lying next to it. Thee? 
