Sundell, E. A. 
IPF 9 
Six Sooty Tern adults and four iaaaatures were present. Two birds flew- 
over the peninsula and headed north disappearing out to sea which might 
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have been Brown-winged Terns—backs lighter shade of color than normal 
adult Sooty, calls higher pitched and unite unlike Sooty Tern. Two 
Wandering Tattlers were seen. 
The captive Golden Plover seems to be mking good progress. I 
found it standing up in the box In the puc$> house for the first time today. 
It la being given fresh water and raw meat. The symptoms remind me of 
those observed in birds that had botulism that I observed along 
Great Salt Lake in Utah (severe diarrhea, loss of strength, and muscular 
coordination, and impaired equilibria®.). 
Two messages from Deseret Test Center 
arrived concerning a 
d ocumentary film of our work to be made during November. 
October 25—The Golden Plover was gone from the bos in the pump house 
this morning. Apparently it recovered enough to leave under its own 
power 
A message from BTC requesting information concerning our supply needs 
for a bird shipment in early November arrived. I took an inventory and 
replied by message. Ninety frigatebirds were counted on the offshore 
reefs and markers north of the causeway and signal building. 
When going banding early in the evening I discovered that entrances 
to all but one of the shearwater burr cars under the sidewalk on the north 
side of the transmitter building had been covered over and filled in. 
Since all of the adult and young birds using these burrows had been 
banded. I spent several housr in digging out the openings. There were 
sic active nests, two of which contained ths rerains of chicks that had 
