Gene Kridler to Roger Cla|>p January 1970 p.5 
hasn T t completed it as yet, not to my knowledge anyway. 
Now we get to Laysan. I list 3 Green-winged Teal, Roger, Not one of 
them was a male that I could determine to be a male. They were all female 
type birds and here again, this time of the year, if there had been a drake 
there, even an immature one, he should have been pretty much along in his 
full courtship plumage, so since none of these birds resemble anything close 
to a male they obviously were females. And of course we can’t pin it down 
to subspecies because the birds were seen in flight, and I had a pretty good 
look at them as they were flying, having seen hundreds of thousands of 
Green-wings, I’m sure that they were Green-wings but I couldn’t tell you 
what the subspecies was. 
The Pintails - checking my notes - actually there were 5 birds and 
not 3? so there is an error in the report. The 5 birds seen were 2 males 
and 3 females. Here again I had a pretty good look at them, so the report 
should be corrected. 
Now the l4 Shovellers seen - these were all counted as they were 
flying away and we made no distinction as to whether they were males or 
females. At this time of the year the shovellers many of the drakes are a 
lot farther behind acquiring their spring or courtship plumage and most of 
them were the species of Dabbling ducks and I don’t recall just who made 
the observations, I think it was mine but going back to my field notes I 
have nothing on the sex other than just that l4 shovellers were seen. 
The breeding status of the Blue-faced Boobies - I think somebody else 
was counting the Blue-face, no here we are. I checked 15 nests on the Blue- 
face and of these 9 contained eggs, 4 did not have any eggs, 1 contained a 
chick, and also another one contained a chick with one egg, so therefore you 
have 9 with eggs, 4 with no eggs and 2 with chicks. One with one single 
chick and one with a chick and an egg. 
