did not get ashore until about 1800. We set up a small samp near 
the west boat landing. The teams split Into two groups ammeadiate 
begsin gollecting blood samples and one of the sailors and I walked 
around beach in opposite dections to count ee Is tend look for shore 
birds. There seemed to a greater numbers of birde on the beach 
and in the jamsIon vegetation as compared to lour last stop here. 
There are Masked Boobies nesting all alone the perringlter of the 
vegetation and solitary and perhaps non breeding birds roosting alone 
the beaces . Ther were many more Albatross on the wide beachs at the 
southern end then there were the last time we were here in one large 
group at the southewest section I collected by hand and oddly colored 
specimen perhaps a hibert or mutent. It had a Ley sen bill and the 
black before and over the eye but* the whole head and neck exateddlng 
down to and blending with the metal on the back and down the breast 
on the front was gray. The mantel end wings were normal Lsysan color 
though somewhat p modeled undr neth. The feet and legs were graish 
black, 1 noted curlews on the beach, and several hundred Turnstone 
on the rock alone the east shore. There were some Brown Boobies 
in the bushes alone the rocky area and a great alone the e*stside* 
88 adult seals and eleven black pups were counted. With the majority 
of the animals being hsl&sd up asleep in the scaevole above the south 
beech oand on the southeast beach below the rocky ears. There was a 
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