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23 February 1963 
This morning I picked up supplies at the commissary for our stay 
ashore. We found another tropicbird nest todey, up on the hill behind 
the dock. Again it was on the ground, with one red speckled cream egg. 
There were numerous tropicbirds in the sir over Sand Island today, but we 
saw no others on the ground. 
There is and interesting bird over on Dynamite Island, which we 
noted for the second time today. It may be an immature western gull and 
we'll try to go over to collect it tomorrow. Through the telescope I noted 
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5 seals on the island today, all adults. 
After supper we went over to the r iffie range and collected 5 nest¬ 
ing birds and their chicks of each albatross species for blood samples. 
We worked on the birds tonight. 
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Today was spent in collecting more birds for blood smaples and work¬ 
ing on bird skins. Fred went over to Dynamite twice today and on the second 
trip was able to collect another immature gull. The weather was very windy 
and rainy all day and we were not able to do much outside. 
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This afternoon we got out gear reedy to take ashore at Pearl and 
Hermes and collected more birds for blood samples. 
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The weather was much better today, and we have high hopes of getting 
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on Pearl snd Hermes tomorrow. The water proof bags arrived from Pearl end 
we were able to get all our gear packed to go ashore. 
SEE DIAGRAM P. 112 - notes 
