Amerman, Kenneth E., 1964, 1966
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K. Amanman 1964 Sand - Johnston April 7 - Franklin's bill collected at last! We discovered it sitting on the north peninsula in the evening. Binion scared with the station gun. The bird possibly may have been attracted to Sand by the numerous dead fish which have washed up from the dynamiting operations - it had never appeared here before. April 4 - Binion and I got out to North (PMR) Island via the CG raft to investigate a report of "about a thousand" birds on eggs. We found about 85 grayback eggs and 120 birds. A few Sooties were flying around and we found one possible Sooty egg (too big). There may have been many more eggs, since the report was received about a week before we could get over there, and they have been busy pushing that all week. We collected about 50 eggs from an area where they were certain to be destroyed. April 5 - I got off at the island again while skin diving and could find