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the last entry 1968 2 b to 25 August 
population estimate 2 to 300 . Under Remarks nests contained eggs being 
i ncubated to almost fully fledged young. Over 15 nests recorded during 
course of other activities USBFSW. Don’t think we banded any Tropicbirds 
on Nihoa. 
Now we’re going to take a break here and try and polish off some of 
these others. 
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Nihoa - The jierri ng Gull . 
Observations - Banko, Walker, and Kridler observed an adult near Derby’s^ 
Landing". The bird was first observed by me who pointed it out to both 
Banko and Walker who didn’t know what it was. I sneaked up on the bird with 
the shotgun and was able to identify it without any doubt as being a Heering 
Gull* and the other two took my word for it. My attempt to collect it was 
unsuccessful as the bird flew off before I could get within shotgun range. 
The second sentence - Hearing Gulls are one of the gulls most commonly oc¬ 
curring - let us just say - Herring Gulls are one of the gull species most 
commonly occurring in the Hawaiian Leewsrd Islands. And also . . this Lee¬ 
wards Islands, Roger, for your information the State Department of Economic 
Planning* Board of Geographic Names* submitted a number of changes of places 
and Islands here in Hawaii to the Board of Geographic Names in Washington 
who approved them, and one of these is that the Leeward Islands will no longer 
be referred to as the I.-eward Islands but instead all these Islands from 
Nihoa up to and including Kure will now be called the Northwestern Hawaiian 
Islands. So,I believe that since they have been officially changed to the 
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands that we should so reflect it in these reports. 
Do you agree? ..— —— ' ; — —- 
Bristle-tkighed Curlew - I’m going to have to check my 1968 August notes. 
It seems to me/we saw one or two at that time. that sentence - two others 
were seen skulking in the rocks at about 150 to 200 feet near the base 
of Canyon 7 , 8, and 9 of March 1968. I don’t like that word ’’skulking.” 
Skulking intimates or infers that they were sneaking around when actually they 
were not, they were perched on top of the rocks andc'. calling. Just say - two 
others were observed among the rocks. And again Hawaiian Leewards Chain to 
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. ... —— - 
The Red-billed Tropicbird. We have never observed any;that remotely look like 
it, during our trips there it's possible we missed it. So far as I know this 
record by Wetmore is the only one from Nihoa. 
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Black Noddy - I don’t know your authority for calling it the Black Noddy 
instead of the White-capped Noddy Tern or the Hawaiian Noddy Tern. I would 
be interested in it. Unless the name is officially accepted by an Ornitho¬ 
logical organization like the AOU or the Cooper Society, or something like 
that. I think this business of one calling it Black Noddy, one calling it 
that, and a third person calling it this, is very confusing. 
