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The other group this morning set up mist nets along the lagoon 
anu perpendicular to its edge, and then tried to drive shore birds into 
it by cautiously circuling arounu behind them. They were not successful, 
and succeeded only in thoroughly fouling up the nets by running 5 albatross 
into them. Each time a bird would hit it would tear down the whole setup, 
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which would have to be reestablished after the birds had been extricated. 
The birds even succeeded in bending one of our aluminum poles, much to 
our dismay as it can no longer be telescoped together for storage. 
We fell into old petrel burrows even in the bare sandy areas around 
th e lagoon. As there are no openings here 1 can only assume that the sand 
has shifted and that the h .bitat has been altered so that the petrels no 
longer nest out there. 
In the afternoon we started our photographic recoru of the island, 
but were unable to get the Polaroid to function properly. Bob and Binion 
then wandered around the northwest region of the island taking 35 ram 
slides. Fred set out to do some collecting, and his finest treasure was 
a good specimen of a gull which we re unable to identify. It looks some¬ 
what like an immature glaucous or western, but I do not really know what 
it is. 
Allen anu I moved up the north side of the west shore durin the 
afternoon, observing and tagging more seals. When we reached the large 
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sandy area at the north end we cut south inland to the slight east-west 
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riuge which cuts across the north end of the island. There we split up 
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in a southwesterly direction and cut back toward the beach, myself coming 
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