/ 
\5\0vC>c.'^wWi j\\VOsW©’>> 
% 
m 
li 
i 
Krialer Comments (to EBC) p.3 
6, 196^ there were 50 chicks banded; March 13, 1965 there were 35 
..bricks oanded; March 8, 1968 we banded 60 chicks. Of course on the basis 
of the work done on Midway it is a little too early to state whether we ? re 
going to have returns or not but I see no reason why we shouldn’t have any 
returns. The ’64 chicks should be back there, a few of them should be back 
in ’69 and certainly some there in 1970* The thing that I am curious about 
is what had happened to the increment, are they going perhaps to Necker to 
breed, is the breeding habitat on Nihoa that limited, they cannot accommodate 
more than 60-70 birds or whatever has taken.place. 
Now getting back to that 1964 banding of 50 chicks - there were more 
present I suspect about 10 or 15 more chicks present but we did not have 
enough bands and all we had were 50 bands and these were all used up. So 
the fact that a number of chicks were banded does not necessarily indicate 
that that was the total amount of chicks there. 
Not we get over to your table about your observations - the population 
estimate on 18 March, 1915 by Munter of 500 birds. I think is highly suspect 
1 bon* know about .Richardson’s observations in *53 and *54. I suspect very 
strongkv chat he didn’t get up there. He said none seen on a partial survey. 
He may not very well have gotten up there or couldn’t recognize Black-footed 
chick* 
h pi g- 
ne 
<r\ • 
cm c: 
no x 
saw them as distinguished from Lays an Albatross chidks. fflisri 
e r? 
KJL 
a numoer or other ornithologists which I’v- seen associated with who could 
distinguish the difference between chicks until it was pointed out to them. 
. x Now on the ’64 - now all these trips subsequent from 1964 all the way to 
^ the end of 1968 you are just citing the Pacific Project as the authority. I’m 
curious as to just why.. Actually this information was gathered primarily by 
Bureau personnel who made up the bulk of our party. We made room in our party 
for Smithsonian personnel either one or two persons. Most of the data was 
gathered by us ana pooled and as I recall in 1964 either Arnersphi or Wislocki 
ever go.. over to the Miller Peak area. They went up Tanager *Bak looking for 
Rad-tailed fropxcbirds to band and pretty much left the censusung of the island 
:uw:,bird populations to us. We then gave them this information as we did to 
lab Fleet in September ’64, Doug Hackman in March of ’67 and you in March of ’68. 
leu your reference and your remarks are all Pacific Project people. I don’t 
consider this kosher at all. The reference or the citations should be Pacific 
Project and US Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. 
0 
New in March of 1964 under remarks there were not 50 young present, 
s ..Id oe changed to 50 chicks banded. And then another sentence 
.. lew more were present but were not handed. Then in March of 1965 there 
were not only 35 young present, there were 35 chicks banded. However, most 
all present were banded. We may have missed 5 or 10 Individuals. Then in 
March of v o7 mis population estimate of 5 is very poor^ because Miller Plateau 
was not visited on this trip by anybody and we should so indicate. The 
population estimation of 5 birds seen about ship. This number of 5 has no 
significance at all and I don’t believe it even belongs in this paper. We. 
did note Black-footed Albatross about the ship. They were following the ship 
clear on from Oahu up to Nihoa and all the way up the Line. Whether they 
/ere birds associated with the island or not, who knows. I think the proper 
- TX 
S’*, -i 
m 
