C. G. Loran Station, Sand Island, Johnston Island Atoll Sooty Terns before lunch. Learned that service had come back on the garbled message of last week. It said that Ken Wilz was to return to D. C. on September 12. This is impossible. We will still leave as planned. After lunch we banded eight nestling Frigate birds and one each of Red-tailed Tropicbird, Red-footed Booby and Brown Booby nestlings. Killed two Common Noddies (immature) with broken wings. Obtained ectoparasites from these. Cut more color markers. Early this morning there were twenty-nine Ruddy Turnstones and five Golden Plovers around the buildings eating worms in the grass. Banded and color marked three hundred adult Sooty Terns after dark. After about an hour's walking through them, they get very jumpy and fly when the light hits them. The moon is now about one-third full and is fairly bright. August 27, 1963 Cut color markers this morning. Ken and I banded two hundred adult Sooty Terns between 9 and 11 a.m.--extremely difficult (and slow) to catch. There seems to be even fewer Sooty Terns today. I would now estimate approximately ten thousand Sooties are present. Filled out Banding Schedules after lunch. Also took some photos. Set up mist net in conjunction with the small sandpiper de coys in an effort to catch some Ruddy Turnstones and Golden Plovers. None were caught by darkness. A rain came about 9:30 p.m. The