1957 F. Johnstone Jan 22 The grey-backed tern had moved its egg to the west side of the platform. The red-tailed tropic bird is in very poor condition. Both eyes are coulded over and it is very weak. Four RTT, three FT seen on J.I. Night banding of boobies yielded only 175 birds. Moon was up at 8:30, greatly hampering our work thereafter. No birds were observed on road or on north side of Transmitter building, though there were many there Jan 24. Birds also seemed to begin sitting down in large groups only about the time the moon appeared. Prior to that there were many birds down but they were reluctant to sit again when disturbed. After the moon was up they would drop down soon after we left an area. 2200 ± 200 boobies present 11 p.m. Jan 30 Lt. Nye informed us that HYN will begin installing evaporators in the pump house in about two weeks. We must