Notes on a visit to Laysan Island by extracted from notes in the 
files of Hawaiian Department of Fish and Game on September 1968. No report was 
apparently made on the trip. R.B. C. 
Arrived on the ship Matagorda 
Departed on the ship Chat aqua 
Arrived Laysan at 0905 3 December 1963 (2nd boat arriving at island 09^5) 
Departed Laysan at 10 December 1963 
Personnel* Nixon Wilson, Roy Tsuda, 
General notes : 
Dec.3^1963 — made seal and shorebird count 
Dec.V, 19^3 -- 12 coconut trees from 10 to 35 feet tall at the north end of the 
lagoon. 7 coconut trees from 15-20 feet tall at the south end of the lagoon. 
Lice and ticks are being recovered from petrels and shofebirds and albatross 
nests by Nixon Wilson. - < 
Dec.5,1963 — , x 
Dec.o, I9S3 — continued photostation work. Roy Tsuda, phycoiogist, looked at 
plants. Planted the following seeds north of coconut grove on north side 
of island. [Scientific names below were difficult to read, alternative spellings, 
are given in parentheses. R.B.C.1 Tsuda took salinity samples. 
1. ) Lipochaeta integnifolia ( integrifolis ) - NEHE 
2. ) Solanum nelsoni var. intermedium---P0P0L0 
3. ) Chenopodium oahuensis -----AHEAHEA 
k .) Achyranthes splendens ( splendoens ) var. reflexa - 
5. ) Cenchrus agrimoniodes ( agremonioides ) - BURGRASS 
'6. ) Lepidium awaihiense' ( awaihoense ) ----PEPPERPLANT 
Dee.7,19&3H"began gooney census. 
Dec.8,1963 — planted nehe down near the lagoon. Deepest part of lagoon is about 
2 V-2 feet. Three plants not found by Tsuda that were here in 1961 are 
Capperus sandwichiana, Portulaca lutea, Heliotropium. 
Dec.9^1963 — 
Dec.10,1963 — received signal from Chataqua on schedule 
* 
Notes on the Birds [Given by species rather than by day.RBC. 1 
Laysan Albatross : [Dec.3"I Most Laysan Albatross larel on eggs lal few [are] walking 
around. Nests of albatrosses nesting on the edge of the lagoon are inundated. The 
albatrosses are still sitting on eggs underwater. pDec.^l Laysan finches seen 
eating abandoned albatross eggs. [Dec.8] Broke an egg of a Laysan Albatross — 
in early stages of incubation. [Dec.101 Results of albatross count -Inot clear 
whether estimate or count.RBCl In Scaevola : 25,600; in guano: 135, 968; in open 
sand: 16,463; in Ipomea : 276,912; in Eragrostis : ^3?005. Total : ^97? 9^-8. 
Black-footed Albatross : [Dec.31 Black-footed Albatrosses at SE corner of island. 
[Dec.101 Results of albatross count [or estimate?! in Scaevola : k,365l in guano: 
0; in open sand: 31? 707; in Ipomea : 131; in Eragrostis : 2, i+63J Total : 38, 666. 
(Dec.7) Most Black-footed Albatrosses are on the open beach of the EScSe sides. 
*Many of these notes are paraphrased to put them in the form of sentences. I dont 
believe there is any information bias or loss in these ph&ases. R.B.C. 
Comments on albatross where no species is indicated are included under Laysan. 
