Seal Island the third on the south reef with vegetation is a fairly 
long narrow island with a verity of habitats. The east end is primarily 
a large exposed rock ledge like the southern section of south island, 
with some sand be;-ch on It's north side. The area is used bu roosting 
frigates and brown boobies, though no nest of either species were fromg 
The western end is prehaps 10 feet aboce seas level with fairly 
steep but wide beeches. The top of the island at this end has vegetation 
There is a wide send and coral rock beach on the northwest and ”est side, 
and several coral ledges perturde alone the waters edge on the south 
beach. Both Laysan and Black foot were nesting here with somewhat 
greater numbers of the latter. Masked Boobies were nesting on the beech. 
Frigates were nesting in the vegetation, both sooty end bonin peprels 
are apparently besting here now. We saw some sooty tern’ over the 
island, two curlews were noted on the vegetated end and there were 
Turnstones and a few Sanderlinga on the beach, 19 seals were counted 
on the island. On the trip down shortly before we landed on Grass 
Xsl nd we observed a large herd of Jbrpdbssto the north end east of grass. 
We went over for a closer look and I ask estimated the size of the 
herd to be between 40 and 50. They appeared to be Tursiops, ebrupt 
brow and elon^te rostrum. On the return trip about a dozen of the 
same species, picked up the boat east of sand island and played about 
it for a minute or so before racing off. Shortly before dark it 
started to pou? again end kept up the this for the whole evening. We 
were thus then unable to do any banding. 
