feet ere red, the upper wings and memtel ere brown, the body white 
but, the heed cream colored. We hed noted some smell groupd of 
Srey becked Terns but, they do not appear to be nesting, also What 
may be e third species of tern but, we have been unable to collect 
or idinify this bird. The group split up this afternoon and wondered 
around the island looking for birds, making notes, and taking photo¬ 
graphs, When we came ashore this morning we were emeses to see two 
house cats race through the town area. We found much evidence of 
perdation in the torn colony and desided to shot them tonight we 
noted five cats on the beach this evening and collected three, though 
we ssv eyes in the distance we were unable to collect any more end 
turned in close to midnight. 
20 March 1963 
Temperature in the shade to day was about 90 and is well over 
100 in the sun. The sun is to hot and burning to be aboe to work out 
in it long in the day light hours. We noted two trpoicbirds over the 
north end of the island this morning. The island is over run with 
crabs especially Hermed Crabs, which ere everywhere as soon as it cools 
at dusk, send are stacked in great piles in all available shade during 
the day light, ^here is a small gray brown crab which burrows all over 
the interior of the island a 1 rge snider like which is most common on 
the rock flats of the east shore, end pale gost like crab which burrows 
alone the edge of the beach. There also large number of skints, 
possible eumeces they ere all over the Island, alone the beech, and in 
the interior and are common around the rocky areas, the rock vasls and 
the old buildings. They use the burrows of the grey brown crab and also 
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