Wislockij George S. Sand Island, Johnston Atoll l6 
1903' 
Booties 200(est.) 
Full moon prevented evening band&ng operations. 
December 29 —Full moon prevented-eailymorhii^glbanding opeeations. Note!: 
(1) In morning, 4 Fairy T rns in colony; (2) Frigates continue to carry nesting mater¬ 
ial; (3) Banded Plover began to molt-first one seen on island. 
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Collected: (l) ^ Sooty Terns and parasites removed (vidwt* 2,4, ). 
In evening a survey taken of entire island: 
Noddy 40 
Sooty 4000 to 6000 
Hawaiian 1 
Plover 4o 
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Tattler 2 
Red-footed l405 
Brovm Booby 17 
Frigatebird ^78 
Banding operations sCarried out di ring full eclipse occixring between 2300 and 0100 
(30). Only Sooties banded (54) and it was estimated that scrnie 300 to 400 were 
roosting on island. 
Deceiriber 30 —Comments: In early morning one of the coast guard seamen reported 
sigtitlng a white tern-like bird larger than a fairy tern flying over colony. He was 
sxire it was neither a red-tailed Tropicbird nor-a fairy tern. A search was 
immediately made for it but it could not be foixnd. Ig is my inpression that it 
might be either a white-tailed tropicbirds or a red-tailed tropicbird missing tail 
feathers. One tropicbird sighted over Johnston Island had no tail feathers. 
In early afternoon ka trip was made to Johntton Island to determine what was 
