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rest until the 5th animal 
35 no 73 adult 9 
37 no 74 yearling <f 
39 no 76 young 9 (ad. pelage) 
41 no 77 edult 9 
45 no 78 yearling <f 
Tag no 75 broken and discarded. Early this morning I sprayed with 
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orange paint, b,ut did not tag, and ahult which was hauled up right in front 
of our camp. It moved off the be- ch later in the day and did not come back 
this evening. The badly woun done was not noted on the east point today. 
After dimer we split into three teams for banding. Morris and I 
did 154 more black foots, bringing the grand total for the day to 454. 
Another group worked on boobies and frigates, with the total for the day 
for these species being 105. Bob and Binion banded more petrels, terns 
noddies and turnstones. Totals for these species are: 100 sooty petrels, 
36 bonins, 8 turnstones, 7 terns and noddies. 
28 February 1963 
The wind increased to 15-20 knots today, and even though it was 
clear it was noticeably cooler. We found our first tropicbird nest this 
morning. There have been several flying around the island since we arrived 
but this is the first breeding activity noted. There were no eggs in the 
nest. 
Morris and I firished the other 50 albatross we has left on the 
string when we stopped last night. Allen and Fred worked on boobies and 
albatross. This afternoon Fred and Binion continued working on boobies while 
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Allen end I, joined later by Morris walked the 
