C. G. Loran Station, Sand Island, Johnston Island Atoll the hand nets. We were able to finish two hundred in about an hour. With Pat catching I was able to do one hundred of these in forty- five minutes. After dark we finished banding and tagging four hundred Sooties (adults) by 11 p.m. The birds are extremely skitish and fly with the full moon up high in the sky. It may be best to even use nets at night. Total birds banded today--seven hundred. This afternoon we saw and heard a Bristle Thighed Curlew. This is the first recorded visit of this bird to the island. The moon is almost full tonight. August 2, 1963 It was decided to hand net Sooty Terns in the daytime instead of working at night. Before the color tag marker ran out we banded five hundred Sooty Terns. Two hundred more were banded after running out. Four thousand five hundred (4500+) Sooty Terns have been tagged since July 21st. We will now band until a new supply of color markers arrive. One band was recovered from a Sooty Tern today (723-44048). This, like the one on the Christmas Island Shearwater, was crimped so bad that the number could not be read before loosening the band. The band would not even turn around on the bird's leg. This may be one of the birds Dr. Ashmole banded in December. The full moon tonight really illuminates everything. I attempted to band Frigates and Boobies but was only able to get one Frigate and one Red-foot. It is just too bright to do any banding at all.