Notes from Banko ! s Files - Necker - Birds - 
Rothschild ,19002 The crew of the Moller did not land on Necker but they saw enormous 
quantities of different birds around it. They were too far off 
to recognize the species. 
Munro, 1944 t Hawaiian gfcorm Petrel : ¥e saw one on our outward passage on 
May 29,1 o91 9 theday after we passed Necker Island.(Birds of Hawaii 
Rice and Kenyon 2 Cites Palmers estimate and Wetmore estimates of about 100 nearly 
grown young and no adult of Blackefooted Albatross and an 
estimated 600 pairs of Laysan Albatross . Richardson (1957) lists 
the Laysan Albatross as occurring there in fair numbers and 
the Black-footed in small numbers. 
We made an aerial photographic survey of Necker on 28 December 
1957* On the photographs we counted 3*327 Laysans and 491 Black-foot 
Allowing 25 'per cent for unemployed birds, we have estimated 
2, 495 and 368 nests of Laysans and Black-foots, respectively. 
(ca. 5*000 Laysan and 7&0 Black-foots). 
A. 
Fisher, 1904 : Reference to Brown Booby on Necker from albatross trip. 
Fisher, 1946 2 Cites Fisher (1903) on Gygis nesting on Necker. 
Munro, 1946 2 Did not ind on Necker. connected with an expedition headed by 
Mr. H.C. Palmer collecting birds for the Honorable Walter 
Rothschild whose collections at Tring, England (now in AMNH) 
habe become world famous. Passengers on the forty ton 
schooner Kaalokai (Capt. F.D., Walker) which was on a shark 
fishing expedition along the Leeward island as far as Midway. 
Munro, 1941 ( 666 ) 2 Fairy Tern seen on the wing offshore Necker 
(673) : Rock covered with ■ birds the tamest of which were Frigate-birds 
some of which alighted on the ship. 
Thompson, 1938 2 Records Olfersia spinifera (Bench) from Necker* off Frigate-birds. 
Zimmerman, 1948 2 Records Mallophagan Pectinopygus ( Pectinopygus ) sulae (Rudow) 
from Necker but does not specifically give host. 
Thompson, 1939 : Records Pectinopygus ( Epifregata ) gracilicornis (Piaget) 
from Necker but does not specifically give host. 
Hutchinson, 1950 2 Largely quotes from Fisher, Christophersen and Gaum, some original 
comments on phosphates. 
2 Description of island, states that the Hawaiian seal has been 
shot on Necker and that turtles, fish, and Crustacea abound 
(from rock to, rock?) Details on archeological fins. 
Emory, 192 8 
