18 February 196? 
This morning the blood samples were prepared and party members started 
preparing the peprele. The drying beck rack was rebuilt end equipment 
was readied for our intended trip to Pearl Hermes. Project leader 
spent the morning trying to obtain sleeping bags, water bags, water 
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proof equipment bags and flash li^ht begs. He was unsu on all 
cotints. Message was sent Qammander Dunlap asking if he would 
attend to obtain these items through an sea pearl and have them 
sent out on the next bsrrior flight. Telegram was sent to Washington 
regarding confusion over the bird shipment. Ceptein Gooden, Bolson 
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McFall, McFerlane, and Wirtj? will fly with Lt. MrDsniel over Pearl 
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and H©rme Reef tomorrow to lo k carefully at the inlands and try 
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to find a safe landing place. Were hope to go to Kure later this 
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week. This evening we collected 20 Fairy Terns for blood samples 
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end © very unusual Shearwater. It is deffinitely not in any of the 
available Hawaiian list and may possiblly be a little Shearwater 
nesting off 
19 February 1963 
Today we worked up the terns skins and prepared the blood 
samples. This afternoon we sampled ten adult Leys an Albatross, 
the evening was spent working out the Albatross blood samples 
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and skining the birds. 
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20 February 1963 
This morning some of the party netted Hawaiian Hoddies for blood 
samples but only three samples were obtained by pulling blo-d 
from 19 birds 
