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Middle toe 51™ * 1 * ; Bing 71 mrru 
_ The birdj breaks the skwo when it hi f.nn-- It trie - 5 - 
to bite me when I place my hand near* 
- I - ^; T t ^rk - ed -- 0 ' rr - 311I *- s - - - rat data all afternoon and ~ 
night. 
We have had two returns on" birds caught in 
mist net So 
311?. and T worked on his rat data all day* After. 
supper we went uo on the towers and counted the roost 
a r eas '- fo r the r epo r tv 
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I weighed and measured the Brown Boobies ffter 
supper 9 while I was working an adult took off and 
hprfpd nn about 1,/2 p ound do fish,.— Fiv e minut - s^s - 
after there were 6 rats eating nn the fishes and 
half an hon r~~ later the fish were ~ a ll cleaned uoy 
This is the first time I have seen this happen since 
I have been here* All summer the barfed up fish have 
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them. 
- Bill has been tsllinymd hovr the 1 'ratu had always" 
devoured dead biidswithin two or three days while he 
was working on the Lavsan Albatrosses. All summer 
dead birds have not been disturbed by the rats, but 
have slowly devoured bg maggots«. 
There are rats thick on the ground when you walk at 
are - thick, under 20 ' g. — You Tool - 
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like wou are being attacked 
I went out and counted the Boobies in the Antnnna 
field after dark., for.—the reports -—- 
