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1963 
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hollowed out beside an oil drum. She had been lying between this drum and 
a i ork lift skid which was left by the napping crew, but we moved the skin 
yesterday, end today she moved around to the other side of the drum. If sc 
one walked too close she would raise her head to lock at them, or would 
start at a loud noise in camp, but she remained till yust before dark 
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when we scared haer off after replacing broken tag no 89"with no 93. 
2 March 1963 
The weather today uemained overcast and winddy. It started to rain 
about I7OO and the wind increased from the SW to 20-25 
knots. The rain increased thiB evening so that we turned in early rather 
than get soaked. 
Th±i morning Fred and Bob tried to pick up more unbonded black-foots 
cum they worked at this till the rain started. Bob, using the telescope 
from the tower, counted 653 Leysans on the western portion of the island 
about noon. We banded four moretropicbirds today, onepair which Bob 
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and I caught under a row of oil drums piled on their sides. Perhaps 
the birds use this sheltered area for a rest site. Binion spent most 
oi the day making insect collections over the island, and turned up an 
interesting collection of ticks. Another of his unusual finds here 
has been some small water striders. The island had flies., house-type and 
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fruit fly slzej several small spiders, includingSome saticidsj some small 
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antr; 1 isopads; roaches; moths several 3inr.ll beetles; and some small 
centipedes. - ~ - . 
This afternoon Binion, Allen and X continued staking out the island, 
burying the 3 foot flag© almost all the way into the sand and putting the 
number on the flag with Marlcsalot and putting a Manal tag with the no* 
