albatrosses (Rice and Kenyon, 1962 ). * 
Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program personnel have spent a total 
of 37 days at Pearl and Hermes Reef on seven different trips since February 
1963 * Personnel from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, and the 
Division of Fish and Game of the State of Hawaii have been present on several 
of these trips. Dates and personnel for each visit are listed in Table X. 
The Survey has banded 27^ 972 individuals of 19 species, and obtained 
returns and recoveries to date. In March 1965 all of the stable islands 
were mapped, and color pictures were taken showing the physiography Of each. 
Population estimates and breeding notes are available from each trip^ though 
some trips did not visit all islands, or did not camp on some of the vegetated 
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islands overnight to observe the nocturnal segment of the avifauna. 
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