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27 Feb. 1963 
57 
1963 
This morning Bob went back to the ship with Morris to pick up 
some more supplies, Pinion end I, and Fred and Allen, formed two teams 
to continue bending: black foots. We banded s total of 234 in the morning, 
including recoveries of 2 old banded birds. 
In the afternoon Binion end I started gridding the island, using 
our red flags, but the island is so full of coral that we coulo not push 
the wires into the ground, so we decided to wait on this project until we 
can get some better stakes. The ship is going to make us enough stakes to 
make the E-W line permanently this trip, end next trip we will have to 
bring many Iron ones. 
Late in the afternoon Allen, Morris, and I set off around the beach 
counter clockwise around the beach to tag seals. We lost one near the east 
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end of the base line, and a couple out of a group of 7 or 8 on the logoon, 
but we were able to catch and band ell others which we found. Two or three 
people on the rope can hold the largest seals. Tagging data for the after¬ 
noon of 27 Feb. is as follows. 
1 yearling 7 1600 10 ft from east end of base line 
12 adult cf 1604 eastern edge of ponds 
9 adult 9 1606 caster edge of ponds 
69 adult cf 1610 sand point on K side of eastern sections; animal 
was large, but did not struggle, looked quite old may be sick 
70 adult 
71 adult <f 1620 east end of sand spit 
72 yearling 7 1625 (rusty belly) east shore lagoon on hase line 
of the long coral peninsula; all were tagged between 1635 and 1645, We 
went in and lassoed one at a time out of the group end did not spook the 
