Fred C. Sibley 
June 25, 19$J- 
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Well, after a year I've finally set Roger. It sees® that it's been 
that long since I last saw you, W® will just cross each other's path® at 
the end of July if the Marshall trip comes through. By the way. Chuck 
and Hail wanted Huber and Hackman to go on the Marsh a ll trip since they 
are such good banders. This is going to mean getting off one ship and 
right on another. 
We had to order more orange strip material for Sand, We almost ran 
out banding Sooty chicks. We set SO,000 as a goal but almost had that 
many don® when I left. I quickly sent 25>000 more down there. We found 
the wire fence works wonders. We built two circles of wire mesh (l/V ! ) 
15" high and about 5' in diameter with a 1 x 1 strip across the center so 
the hoop could be pieked up. This can be used during the day by herding 
and placing the hoop over the herd. The best method was using the hoop 
as a holding pen while catching the chicks by net. We could catch several 
hundred in a few minutes by net, put them in the pen and then stand in 
one place and band. A 50 inch high pen works for adults also. A person 
can stand inside banding while amt her catches adults by tend net. 
You must have run into a large colony of Gray-backed Terns, Bulwer's 
Petrels, or Fairy 'Terns to need 2,000 more Ho. 2 bands. Roger and I 
couldn't imagine what else it could be. We thought probably the Gray- 
backs but maybe either of the latter two. I hope you have been looking 
for orange strips. You knew that a Frigate and also 2 Booties all with 
orange strips turned up on Kure last month Also recently Kepler saw a 
Noddy on Manana with an orange strip and one of the Audubon members saw 
a miked Sooty on Manana. The color miking is finally paying off in 
sight records. The ! ’at-sea"crew have also been seeing a good many. 
Before leaving Sand I picked up the blue-tagged BodSy that Bushman tagged 
on Eniwet ok In 1961. We marked it with our color, banded it, photographed 
it and then released it. The bird was nesting within 10 feet of where 
it nested lest year. We only saw this bird last year. 
The latest Droppings will give you all, the latest on the personnel 
here in 3X3. 
Try to collect some more MaXXophsga from those Petrels and Shear¬ 
waters down in the Phoenix area, especially the ones that don't occur in 
the Hawaiian area. Also some nest fauna samples are needed from their 
burrows. These can be run through the Bsrlese funnels. Don't sort the 
resulting alcohol mixture, just place the liquid in large vials. Jayr 
Gee can sort the material here. 
