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C. G. Loran Station, Sand Island, Johnston Island Atoll
by mailing cardboard to its sides. It was large enough to sit on
box inside. We placed it near the Frigate Bird nests to make
observations. At 10 I checked the marked Wedgetailed Shearwater
burrows and banded three new adults in them. A new number nine
and ten (nest) were found and recorded. The Berlese sample was processed
and a new sample from a mouse nest was added. After lunch Ken observed
the Frigate from the blind for two and a half hours. Several pairs of
unbanded Red-tailed Tropicbirds are flying around the island. They
appear to be wanting to land.
No mail from the S. I. came on the plane today. This is
discusting!!
After dark Ken banded two hundred adult Sooty Terns. This makes
one thousand adults we have banded. I banded twenty-nine Frigates
(5 ?, 22 ?, and two immatures). Fifteen of these come from the off-
shore islet. Two Brown Boobies (one local and one immature) were
also banded there. Two other Brown Boobies and three Red-footed
Boobies were banded on the mainland. Two more pairs of Christmas
Island Shearwater were found. Three of these birds were banded. The
fourth one got away. Upon checking the pair under the cement slab on
the north beach, a chick