A. Anderson 1964 the probable result of either an injury when young. The nests themselves are usually about 10" in diameter and are composed of dead Tribulus twigs and guano. May be as close together as 1 ft; most about 16" apart. Spent most of the day making skins and skeletons of sooties and lesser frigates and one r-t tropic bird. At 6 PM an expedition went to the tern colony again, successfully employing a 8' x 8' framed net half 1' off the ground, as a holding pen to place immatures caught in a hand net. One or two men caught at a half run, dumping them into the hand net until full, when the load was placed in the net for the rest to band. Completed 900 in less than an hour. Went to sleep temporarily at 9 PM. 13 October, 1964 - Howland Island to Baker Island All went out banding at 2 AM, half of the party catching greater frigates, red-footed boobies (both nesting and roosting in the dead Cordia trees near the center of the island) and blue-faced boobies. One nesting Hawaiian Noddy was found in the trees - the first record for Howland Island. The other half banded sooty terns (adults) in the nesting colony. The sooties repeated their behavior of 12 Oct. by becoming suddenly unbandable at 6 AM. Followed up by rounding of the young lesser frigates at 2,000. Found another gray-back tern nest on the way back to camp: 2 eggs. Lest island at 8 AM by rubber raft; ship departed 0900. Rearranged, cleaned, and replenished gear and had a hot meal and shower. Move to off island shortly after 1300 and with two raft loads were abeach again. Baker Island quite bare of birds compared with Howland; only 5 Sooty terns were sighted until we were within a mile of the island. There, a school of several hundred 20 lb. tuna was feeding vigorously, presumably on squid, as a large school of squid was seen near the island later. Three of us hiked around the interior of the island country; blue-faced sooty nests and banding and spraying adults. 23 nests were found. Shorebird counts were made: curlews, ruddy turnstones, golden plovers and wandering tattlers were seen in about half the numbers observed on Howland. One curlew was seen to carry a mouse by the tail; when approached it took off and carried the mouse, wobbling slightly, all the way across the island. Mice (Mus musculus) were quite plentiful, living under boards, in holes at the base of Tribulus and Sida plants, and around the old buildings amid machinery. Skinks were as plentiful as on Howland; same species. A small colony of nesting common noddies had eggs and young on a small oblong island in the middle of a guano filled lagoon of stagnant seepage water. This served to isolate them from the cats that kept all bird populations down before they were exterminated on the last ATF trip. Several new species of plants appear on Baker that were not on Howland: Mimosa, Triumphette, Ipomoea, Euphorbia, Sida. The Sida is dry almost everywhere. Almost no boobies were on the island during the day except nesters but at dark the clubs on the S side of the island had begun to form and swell. Noddies also came in moderate numbers to the colony on the NE corner. Very few boobies (23) nested on the N edge of the island; some were scattered around the interior.