75 
No seals were tagged today, but I counted a total of 24 seels on 
the send bar, including four returns as follows} 91, 106, 109 end 127. 
No. 91 still showed quite clearly the orange spray paint mark. An adult 
was noted on the north end of the bar which may have been the bably wounded 
one we sew the first day on Southeast. It had several gaping wound s 
vdhich were Just beginning to heal with a lot of dead tissue around them, 
but it went into the water before I had much of a look at it. 
North Island is polywos shaped, with the body portion being 
somewhat depressed in the oenter and vegetated and the tail being along 
snjad peninsula. All of its beaches are short and steep, except where 
the tail tapers off et the southern tip. 
There were large numbers of albatross of both species nesting here 
and probably more nesting frigates than we have on Southeast. Masked 
-boobies were nesting all along the beach area, and a few of the other 
2 species were noted about the island. One tropicbird was seen flying 
over the island. Bed-footed boobies were nesting also. No petrel 
burrows were noted. There were 5 large turtles landed up on the south¬ 
east shore. It is interesting to note that we saw no turtles at the islands 
we visited yesterday, always a couple banded up on the north be^ch at 
Southeast Island. 
I counted a total of 27 seals on the island, including one 
dead pup which had been in the vegetation for several days and was too 
fly-blown to carry back. Two tagged seals were noted, but only #71 
could be read as the other escaped before I could read the tag. 
We arrived back rt camp about 1545 and the sun finally came out 
