Amerman, Kenneth 1964 Sooty Terns Cont. March 2 - Three eggs in plot 1. Thirty in plot 4. Number still increasing by day in area along road to dump. Very few more birds seem to come in to the north point at night. March 3 - Plot 1 3 and 8 = 11 2 6 3 8 4 30 35 Area B - 19 Birds have moved across road to dump, now occupying area between it and shore. Very few eggs, so far. Pushing across slope from both sides; eggs up to nests 24 and 8. March 5 - Birds spreading downward and outward on slope leading to peninsula. Those on peninsula may be moving inward some more. Patch of Sesuvium between plots 5 and 6 occupied during the morning, no eggs. Birds solid across lsope with Brown Boobies. First eggs in plots 5 and 6. The other plots are remaining fairly constant. No losses, 1 - 2 additions. One egg each in 5 and 6 by 1100; 7 and 2, respectively, by 7 p.m. Birds still occupying entire slope. March ;6 - Banded 600 on north peninsula on eggs. Many new eggs in all plots. Birds solid on road to dump. March 7 - Many eggs right in road to dump, also many across it. Birds sitting and beginning to lay on open area where dump was situated. Very rapid and sudden movement into this area. Many birds also sitting on Tribulus on North side of transmitter building. Few eggs so far. 300 banded in area of plots 1 and 2.