Table 6 contains a summary of the progress of the killing | 
program, grouped into weeks for convenience. A detailed daily report 
is presented as table 7. Totals of 29,763 Laysan albatrosses, 277 
black-footed albatrosses, and 1 hybrid, were killed, a grand total 
of 30,041 birds. 
A total of 3,697 man-hours, not including the biologists’ 
time, was expended on the program. A mean average of 8.2 birds per 
man-hour were killed. This includes time consumed in all phases of 
the operation, including killing, pick-up, hauling, burying, etc. 
A weekly breakdown of man-hours is presented in table 8; the daily 
totals are included in table 7. 
The night kills during the last 2 weeks were not above 
average as far as birds per man-hour is concerned. However, the 
total number of birds in the area during that period was much lower 
than during previous weeks. Also, while the birds are much easier to 
approach and kill at night, they do not move around much, and there is 
no influx of new birds arriving from the sea during the night; there- 
fore, most of the birds on the area were eliminated during the first 
few hours, and very few could be found towards morning. 
Table 6.--Weekly Summary of Killing Program 
Number of birds killed 
Zone 8 Cumu- 
Black- Zone 8 Zone 9 (N) Zone 9 (S) Zone 7 Weekly lative 
foots Laysans Laysans Laysans Laysans total total 
15-17 Jan. — 110 861 1,923 2,894 2,894 
20-24 Jan. 60 412 5,078 an -- 5,550 8,444 
27-31 Jan. 11 81 2,848 -- -- 2,940 11,384 
3-7 Feb. 44 477 1,858* 1,628 221 4,228 15,612 
10-14 Feb. 19 464 1,804 1,240 -- 3,527 19,139 
17-21 Feb. 0 56 1, 156 337 2,100 3,649 22,788 
24-28 Feb. 21 596 1,715 343 1,148 3,823 26,611 
3-7 Mar. 12 213 1,724 211 1,270 3,430 30,041 
Total 277 3,160 18,106 3,759 4,739 30,041 
* Includes one hybrid albatross 
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