SCHREIBER 
CHRISTMAS ISLAND 
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20 May. Spent the morning and easrly afternoon on 
the-southside of the island banding Blue faced 
booby. Had gone down with Duduley dook who wahtec 
to look at some plantations and i landed until he 
came by with wife and the store manager and family, 
Did not band in themiddle portion and anted some 
32 nests in this area. Dougt if i will get to ther 
. Visited the lesser frigate colony, and measrued 
eggs. Birds very skidish. See notes. Then went 
to seaplane base for lunch of s fish, coconuts etc, 
and caught an alua on a hook andline jut thrown 
into thewater from the beach. Must be four feet 
long, cant be,ieve catching anyhting this big like 
that. 
21 May.. Spent the afternoon exploring the area fbf 
the northeast point and worked on frigates, red 
foots and visited one island with gray backs and 
common noddies on it. Then had a flat txsr tiee 
and had to walk back, wastimg most of the afternnoi 
/ Went to the movie after dinner, a freally bad 
cowboy, thenaitive seems to really enjoy it... 
Dringks with dudley and so to bed. It really rain 
ed for a few minutes in themorning, the first rain 
we have had since i came. 
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22 May: the rover is showing signs of wear so it spen- 
the day being fixed and i spent the day reading 
mysteris. Without the car it is impossible to 
do anyhting... | 
23 May. All info otherplaces for the 22 nd should be 
for the 23rd. With the car back visited two islan< 
near the bridge and found essentiall nothing on 
them. One did not have a bird on it and the other 
had a pair of BFB with a chick and a colony of WTS 
Lorakeet: found the pai in approx the smae pise 
as last time, sitting gs together on a lower branc’ 
of a coconut tree. Not more .than inches apart. 
Got within about 20 feet and then buxxzzed to the^fl 
and they flew around me several times and than 
landed in the sme tree near me looking me over and 
making aot of raise. Stayed very close as fed. 
along the branches, and after 45 minutes of this 
i left them along. Think that theymust be a pair, 
where is the nest or have they built it or what? 
Christmas Island 
May. Spent themorning looimng for and photographing 
the Lorakeets: found them in the same area, sittir 
in the lower branches of a coconut tree very close 
together, flew around a bit but came back to the 
smae grees where i got some good pictures i hope. 
Make much noise together. In the evening went bad 
to the northeast frigate and booby colony and 
banded and bled birds_ Today the worS is that 
the plane is not coming after yesterday it would 
be here on saturddy. Oh well, the life of the 
isolated... 
May. Drove along the Y site road in the afternoon 
and finished off the BFB bands. Also caught one 
RTTB on an egg. Visited with crashed aircraft aloi 
the lagoon road, must have been a single engine 
monoplane. Not much left of it. In the evening 
wokred the Northeast lagoon rfb andgf colony. Tool 
24 Mood samples andpretty well covered thecolony. 
CAught lobster in evening on the reef. 
May: spent the morning spinning down blood and the 
related work, in afternoon went to london thinking 
the boat was here but of course it wasn't so came 
back to camp and read... In evening went fishing 
with Dudley cook and the natives. Filled back of 
rover with fish, then sang songs and drank on the 
bridge. These natives really can sing well, in 
apparent knxx two-three part hcmony. 
May: Drove to the lagoon red where dudule and the 
boys were catching fish and took some pictures of 
that and the frigates behind them. Then went to tb 
e area around the Dakota xkxpx strip and looked at 
thesooties and. other birds in that area. At night 
wokked the frigate colony just to the right of the 
road be 3 'ond the deep ford on the lagoon read and 
took blood samples. 
SOOTY TERNS: ath the area around the water hole 
the sooties hare been laying eggs for the last two 
or three days. The natives collect these almost as 
fast as they are laid but the nedt day the are more 
laid. Now cover an area about two miles long and 
200 yards wide. Nesta res not close together and 
the first ones seem to be laid near a bush or clum 
p of lepturus. Really have no idea how many are 
there. At the other end of theisland there are 
