P.Woodward 
Species Account 
SIC 9 
Christmas Island 
30 Oct. 
1965 
White-throated Storm Petrel (Blue-gray Is., 30 Oct) Birds are just starting a new 
nesting cycle. At least 10 eggs found, most fresh, and probably doublesthat number 
are present, considering the difficulty of finding the nests. Nests are found under 
Lepturus, Pottulaca, and under rock ledges and in natural cavitites. I am not 
sure if the birds dig their own burrows. Four returns were recorded, all banded last 
fall. 
Sooty Tern : Thousands of birds are just starting to come down. Some are on the ground 
during the day and up in the air at night, while the colony at Carver way is present 
dureing the day, some birds on the gEound , with the birds wither in the air or com¬ 
pletely gone at night. A few large nestlings are also present. 
White Tern : (28 )ct.-Cook Island) Examined a downy young. Down was pure whites 
with a broad gray strip down the back and black markings on the head. 
