Reneman 1964 Sand-Detructa time. No new eggs yet, however. Tropic birds also seem to be getting ready to breed. Two were found in the bunker on the east shore at 2 p.m. and banded and tagged; one remained inside after handling. Also, the crew reported one under the last fuel tank on the left in the same spot where one nested last year. A third brown booby seems about to lay. A second common nolty on the small island also may be preparing. A red-footed booby appears to be constructing a nest on some of the rubble leading out to the guy wire on the SE shore, about 2 feet off the ground and right at the water's edge. Five 10'x10' plots were laid out in anticipation of forty ten nesting. Two of them may need to be moved. They perhaps should be set up only after the birds begin nesting but this would present difficulties in mapping them. The plots are as follows: #1 in open area in shearwater - Hawaiian