colonies in the day time hat it is best to hand at night with a heed 
light and will easiest to catch birds at night for Hood samples. The 
seals can only he safely handler in day light hours a* we must be 
cautious in handling they. The total number of turtles and seals 
seeir on the beschs was recorded in the field notes, the Albatross 
appeared to he nesting cheifly e in e hallow which inside the sand 
beach in the scaevola but not in the grassy interior of the island. 
This island appe-rs to be drier then Laysan and the interior is mostly 
bunchs of grass. The party there reported that they fell into petrel 
burrows with much greeter frequency and thst there w»s almost no 
Albatross nesting in th~.t area. The soil of this island is a much 
finer sand then that we hare observed on Leysan. There were large 
numbers of frigatebirds in the bushes around the circumference of the 
island beginning to nest, and in the ares were large groups at most 
times as we move about the island. Masked Boobies were observed 
nesting among the Albatross in various stages of reproduction from 
nest building to pari ally grown chicks several good groups of Bristle 
thighed Curlew were observe^ find l*rge flocks of golden clovers, 
and Ruddy Turnstones were ween on the east eastern and southeastern 
beachs. Groups of eight to ten sanderllngs were seen on the beach 
at numerous points around the island, as we were not there at night 
we could make no estimate of the petrel population however as report¬ 
ed above the density of burrows appeared much greater than that on 
Lsysan. And as we left island late in the afternoon thousand of 
Bonin island Petrel appeared everywhere, one looked ski jsming over 
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