K. Amerman 1966 Sand - Johnston January 17. Departed Honolulu 0500 via M475 N-23. Arrived Johnston 1100. Chicked at Terminal, no one knew anything about bird shipment except that there definitely was no flight Wednesday or Thursday, huggcd my gear to the boat dock by hand and arrived on Sand about 1230. Mage knew nothing of shipment. Called George Sung in N.Y.N shipping; he said we could put birds on flight tomorrow. We went to J.I. on 430 boat, got 30 cartons (albatross rig?), absorbent material and unmarked cardboard bottoms; 10 liners. Returned to Sand on 730 boat. Began catching birds about 10 P.M. after assembling a few boxes. Catching went well so we made up the rest. Finished catching & boxing about 0100, labeled them, punched air holes and got through about 230. We ran out of tape after doing all the bottoms, just folded the tops together. Caught a total of 58, 2 per box. The last few took us through the entire colony, all birds in air. About 20 eggs; one new chick on bunker by inlet. Males were much more numerous than females. Tried to call Dr. Ely about 2000 before beginning our labors. Honolulu operator and Pearl Harbor operator got recordings signifying non- working party no. when they dialed 39103. So far it has not proved an auspicious start. K. Amerman 1966 Sand - Johnston January 18. Up at 0715, nothing to do but watch the morning's proceedings until about 0815. Birds taken to Johnston by 0900. Warehouse people most cooperative; gave us tape for the tops of the cartons though they might have been shipped just folded. All birds were alive yet. No banded ones had been taken. Returned to Sand on 1100 boat. Rested until about 1400 after lunch. Then to colony to pick up guy wire casualties and autopsy. Casualties centralized in area C, southern 1/3 of areas B+D (Crop. alms south shore) and western side of area E. No Scotties examined had brood patches. Males had testes averaging about 11 for left, 6 for right; females' ovaries about 12x5, ova 2-3. Sex ratio nearly 1:1. Estimate 150+ total collected; 24 autopsied; 15 bands recovered. Frigates did not seem much disturbed by last night's raid. Males are definitely more numerous, actively courting. Entire nesting colony has shifted from hill to south shore rocks except for a few on the inlet. Perhaps this was the original site and was disturbed by Coast Guard activities before we arrived. One Red-foot beginning a nest, on the north shore site. No Brown's nesting. Some Noddies with 2-3 on peninsula and east shore. Saw 11 Fairy Terns on Johnston yesterday.