Gene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
January 1970 
P*3 
to the Plateau when the ship had blown its whistle and as a consequence 
I never did get over to the Plateau. The data’then would be considered 
as Class C. It's a little better than Class D but certainly not nowhere 
near as good as if I would have been able to get over to the Plateau. 
Question 5 - For both Brown Booby and Red-footed Booby the comment 
is eggs still being incubated and you say I assume this means that no young 
were seen and that most negts contained eggs* My field notes show that most 
of the Red-footed Booby nests contained young although there were quite a 
few that still had eggs but I wasn't able to conduct a sample count to get 
percentages. As far as the Brown Boobies were concerned, we had them any¬ 
where from eggs to downy young as well as some immature birds which were 
flying. 
Now no. 6, no comment is entered for either Gray-backed Terns or 
Blue-gray Noddy. Does this mean that no birds were nesting or merely 
that no attempt was made to look for nests? No attempt was made to look 
for nests, Roger. Although as I recall I don't have my records with me 
here now, because I’m dictating to this tape at home and I didn't bring 
everything with me. It seems to me that at this time of the year there 
would be quite a few Blue-gray Noddies nesting although we didn't make any 
attempt. The fact that there was no comment after this does not indicate 
that the birds were not nesting. I suspect they were. It's just that we 
weren't checking where they nest. The same would apply to the Gray-backed 
