hid under rocks end buildings dabrey, some Adults with eggs were egg found 
under a log. There are also o#ckos around the buildings and In dsbrey 
on the island a series of othen was collected. We have found several 
cat skules in wondering around the island apparently these animals 
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have been on the island from many years perhaps since the war and are 
doing well. A pregnant animal w s taken this afternoon and this w : -a - 
not her first litter. We killed a couple more today and find that they 
primaryly eft^ng the sooty tern chicks. After dinner we set Sherman 
Traps and checked over the island for birds again. 
21 March 1963 
We got up a dawn today to get work done before it goet too hot. 
The Sherman Traps had only Hermit Crabs in them, there is no sign 
of rodest on the island, feeding sign, tracks or burrows, nor nest. 
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If there r#ts on the island in the p*st perhaps the cats had gotten 
rid of they. Five more cats were collected at the north end of the 
island and two more were seen later in the evening, two more seen 
shortly after midnight. With all the holes end rock ledges about the 
island it hard to tell how many cats may be hear. We have not seen 
any during the day since the first but at night see their eyes frquently 
far ahead of us. This morning we took blood samples from the immature 
sooty terns, and banded three hundred of them, tonight we bleed adults 
and banded 300 more lnmstures, and also bleed immature fridgetes . 
We collected some of the unusual red footed boobies. There are many 
ticks on the island and Binion has collected large numbers of them. In 
view of the small number of birds here and the terrigic heat of the 
day time we have desided that we can accomplish little more by staying 
on the rest of the days and desided to cut the short outhern the south” 
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