All Islands 
1%, Have you any additional information on whether Sharp-tailed Sand¬ 
piper was seen? I think with the report^ yoiMsent me now so far, 
I am almost complete except perhaps for your latest. I still 
lack, however, the rest of your notes from the July 1967 trip to 
Pearl & Hermes. The notes I have (which you let me copy from 
your log book last spring) were very detailed on albatrosses, and 
I imagine you have some other information on the various other 
things you saw. 
For August-September 1968 trip you fill in personnel for several 
visits (Hihoa and Hecker) but I need this sort of information as 
well as perhaps a general account for the rest of the Islands 
visited. 
Judging from what you print in the scientific table, I guess 
there isn't anything to add for Necker and I think I have most 
of the bird stuff from Hihoa from when I was out there with you. 
I tiling, however, that in your earlier letter commenting on u the 
Hihoa report, you made some statement to the effect that you got 
some pretty good population data on Laysan. We don’t have that 
or anything from islands beyond Nihoa and Hecker. 
I also lack any notes from the February 1969 visit to Pearl and 
Hermes. 
Lisianski Island 
15. I sua sort of puzzled by the population estimates for Fairy Terns 
and Hawaiian Hoddy Terns. For the former, 13 nests are listed 
as the population and in the latter, 30 nests. However, under 
comments 260 nests are listed for Hawaiian Noddies. The comments 
under Fairy Tern and frigatebird are identical which I suppose 
resulted from accidentally typing the frigate data in the tern 
column. Is there any info on the tern nest contents? 
Southeast Island 
16 , I gather that the nest counts on the frigatebircla, Blue-faced 
Boobies, and Bed-footed Boobies were very exact, but there is no 
class data entry for Brown Boobies. Was this a complete count 
too? Do you have any status on the nesting of the Gray-baeked 
Terns? 
Questions on the May-June 1969 report . Most of these questions 
should be directed, I imagine, to Dave Olson. Comment - if it is 
all right with Dave, I think I'll use part of his account of his 
landing on Necker Island in the Hecker Island history since his 
experience with the sharks should certainly get across the point 
of how difficult it is to land on that island. 
