A. Anderson 1964 Oct 18 (cont.) Birds were found roughly as indicated on the diagram. Nearly a thousand greater frigate nestlings were spread along the W side, 2-4 ft. apart. Red-footed boobies were in the same general area, nesting in dead Sida bushes. Fairy terns, common noddies, and a few Hawaiian noddies roosted and nested on the rock walls of the guano factory remains and on the many gray coral rocks scattered around the W and N sida. Gray-sacked terns nested thickly on the E side, laying their eggs usually on patches of 1/2" pebbles between larger rocks. Blue-faced boobies nested mostly at the rim of the lagoon on the N, W, and E sides; 200 nestlings were banded and about 40 more were present. A very large colony of lesser frigate nestlings (15-20,000) spread in a narrow band from half-way down the E shore toward the S. Evidence of nesting failure several months ago (corpses and skeletons) remained near the N end of the E side. 5 brown boobies were seen and one nesting was banded. Several Anderson's Shearwaters were found under rocks. Over a dozen nesting L-T Tropicbirds were banded, one return. Audubon's (CPH) In the afternoon I banded great frigate chicks - 400 were banded in all. We then took blood samples of adult and immature sooty terns, Anderson's shearwaters. Common noddies, great frigate nestlings, and blue-faced boobies, partly done after dark. After sunset tow of us worked on the blue-faced along the W shore where about 200 pairs were nesting. There was one club of several hundred on the E side of the lagoon but the moon was almost full all night and it was impossible to work the club. The nesters were difficult but much more reluctant to fly. Work ceased shortly after midnight. October 19 Two banders and photographer went out to the ship in the 8 AM ? to fuge blood samples. The rest of us skinned etc.; a plover, a tattler, and a 'sharp-tailed sandpiper had been collected in the lagoon, as well as a number of sooties and Anderson's which did not survive the blood sampling. Just before low tide we poisoned the reef waters as on Baker. A big difference was the absence of Big-eye dominance; also, all stages of eels (5 or 6 species) abounded here. Several hundred ? - very abundant - were collected, as well as shorefish, coral fish, surgeon fish, a puffer, octopus, ? fish, mullet, 2 flounder types, and thirty of forty others. The tide friendly - jig like brought in most of the small fish killed and we made a special collection just of those. In the afternoon we sanded fairy terns, made a shorbird count, and banded lesser frigate nestlings. 21 golden plovers, 86 bristle-thighed curlews, 17 wandering tattlers, and 119 ruddy turnstones were seen. The plovers were scattered in groups up to 4; the curlews sat mainly in the lagoon in groups, of 8-14 with some large flocks on the shore; tattlers were scattered around the shore; and turnstones were both on the shore and in lagoon in numbers from 10-20 one small club of 10 brown boobies perch on the rock crest at the top of the beach. After dark, I worked blue-faced boobies again while others banded Audobon's shearwater, sooty tern, and a few gray-sacked and blue-gray-noddy terns. quit at midnight. Oct. 20 Early in the morning everyone worked lesser frigate nestlings, bringing