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st&temient in there should say: None observed but no effort or no time 
could be taken to conduct a census on this trip. 
‘Then we go to March of 1968 and we say 59 chicks found on Miller plateau; 
that should be changed to 59 chicks banded on Miller plateau. One or two 
may have been missed. Then a new figure in 1968 - August 2k and 25 - populati 
estimated as zero, none observed at any time, even though the island was well 
covered. That should take care of the Black-footed*section. 
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Now let f s move on to the Laysan Albatross - I agree with you that the 
large estimate of 1,000 birds by Kenyon and Rice is certainly erroneous. I'm 
sure that they must have confused these with boobies, and I don’t think it 
was with the Blue-faced, I think it was primarily with Red-footed because this 
colony up there, the Black-footed colony, has a large number of Red-footed 
nesting up there as well as a fair number of Blue-faced. But the Red-footed 
are so much more numerous than Blue-faced that coming up with a figure of 1,000 
obviously they must have been counting Red-footed. 
In the second paragraph, the second sentence under populations - the 
lack of nests on three of the March visits may indicate that in some years' 
Laysan Albatross nest unsuccessfully. You have just successfully. Here again 
ve my have missed one qt two chick! among tht Black-foots. It f s a possibility. 
Sc going on to annual cycle you’ll say - second sentence - existing data did 
not indicate that Laysan Albatross in Nihoa have a cycle any different from that 
found on the other Leeward Islands. I think this is very true and if this is 
true, well then the breeding season or their presence under status going back QS 
up to the top, should be from at least early November through May or June 
instead of from at least December. 
Breeding habitat - second sentence - you say Kr idler indicated that the (&) 
five chicks he found in March 1968 were on Miller Plateau. I’m not indicating 
that, that was a fact.. The sentence should be changed to or "and Kridler banded 
A chicks he found in March 1968 amont the Black-footed colony" or maybe we 
should say "within the Black-footed colony on Miller Plateau’i Having banded 
umpteen thousand chicks of both species I'm quite familiar with the difference 
between the two. 
Now under other areas of occurrence - Kramer in December 1961 and Walker 
In March 196k hoth noted that all Laysan Albatross were on Miller Plateau. 
This Is not true. I don’t know about Kramer’s observations, but in March of © 
‘ok we found a few as much as 100 feet or so down on the south slope of 
Miller Peak. 
Banding - the Pacific Project did not band 6 adults in March 196k. As 
I mentioned before Amerson and Wislocki were over on Tananger Peak *working 
primarily with Red-tailed Tropicbirds. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 
r Midlife banded 6 adults in March 196k. On March 8, 1968, four chicks were 
also banded, by 3FSW personnel. 
