Amerman, Kenneth 1964 36 Brown Booby - Notes January 8 - Beginning of courtship and nest building. January 23 - First egg. January 29 - Second egg in same nest. February 1 - Second nest, with egg. No. 2 February 8. February 5 - Third nest with egg. No. 2 February 11. February 6 - Fourth nest with egg. February 11 - Nest five with egg. February 12 - Nests 6 and 7 with eggs. February 24 - Five banded, three returns. February 25 - One banded, one returns. Fourteen nests. February 29 - Banded two, one return. March 1 - Nineteen nests, thirty-three eggs. March 3 - Twenty-three nests, thirty-eight eggs on island. One incubating a Sooty egg. One nest on islet, on slope, with a Noddy egg. March 4 - Different ? on nest 9; bill painted. March 5 - Two more nests on islet; all three have eggs. March 10 - First chick - egg No. 1. March 13 - Eggs 2 and 3 hatched. March 15 - Thirty-five nests, sixty-three eggs, three chicks. March 19 - Nest 9 abandoned since March 15. The eggs were out of the nest that day, down the hill. We put them back but to no avail. March 25 - Nest three abandoned after the death of the single chick.