T Lyons 1939 pg b Sooty Tern June 26 (cont) P.M. Wake - down stage, retreated, peeping like baby chicks. looked like young noddies in shape & action, dopey, ^grey brown with [light feather tips] black bar-spots (●●)^ collected in flocks under trees). I drove on into the water - rode deep but swam confidently. Adults made considerable fuss, two times almost clutching me, but came back to eggs & young when I had gone or 50'. about one in 100 case there were two eggs or chicks (one instance of 2 eggs, so was not that chick moved. Nests just tiny depressions in sand or silt eggs similar to Noddies . 3 cases of young disgorging, 2 squid, and one squider and a small fish. Rats abundant at outskirts of colony lots ^bad collected egg shells - but no evidence that they are a menace to the nesting terns