A. Anderson 1964 Oct 20 (cont.) the total banded to 2,000. Came back and skinned birds, made skeletons. In the afternoon we used the holding net again on immature sooty terns, banding 900. At night most banded adult sooty terns in the dead Sida near camp. (1500) Others banded Audubon's shearwater and miscellaneous terns. Oct. 21 Began the day by banding 500 immature sooty terns in the Lepturus near the lagoon. Made more skins and skeletons in the heat of the day. Netted Sooty terns in the afternoon, and finished another 1000 frigate nestlings late in the afternoon. 2000 adults after dark. 3 instances of ♀ frigates chasing sooty terns were observed; one chasing fairy tern; one chasing wedge tail; four chasing another frigate. Over 150 dark phase wedge tails were sitting around the guano pile near camp at 2200; no light phase. A wh-th storm petrel, accidentally netted by the alert photographer, was collected; also a dk phase wedge tail with a white head and other whitish bits. Oct. 22 McKean Island to Gardner Island Depart McKean 0800 for 6 hr. leg to Gardner; arrived Gardner 1400. Landed at the deserted village and made camp in one of the coconut-frond huts, ideally suited to the climate: no walls. Two men went out after plants, one after miscellany; two took the rubber raft and went all the way to the inland end of the lagoon. The village bore many trees of its recent inhabitants: journals, record books, travel notices, etc. The coconut plantation extends roughly halfway down the west side of the island. The dry weather, causing the death of great patches of coconut trees, has severely limited human visibility on the island and forced British authorities to abandon their 23 yr attempt at establishing a transplanted group of Gilbertese. I saw two cats, and several others were seen later in the evening. Several death dogs were found around the village, just a month or less gone. No rats were seen. Gekkos, skinks, and insects were collected data in the evening. Got up at six and Paul, Bob, and I were taken down to the E end of the lagoon. Woodward and Long collected plants all the way back to camp, one one each side of the lagoon, while I made a bird cesus along the N side back toward the W side. Several large great frigate colonies in high Pisonia trees were mixed with nesting red-footed boobies. Fairy terns roosted at the outskirts of these colonies. 8 white-tailed tropic birds were seen; also, 4 red-tailed tropic birds, many Hawaiian and common noddies. 17 wandering tattlers, 28 golden plovers, 13 ruddy turnstones, and eight turtle tracks. The lagoon shore was teeming with small fish, including many 1-foot black-tipped sharks. The entire ocean beach crest was fronted with a six-foot stand of Scaevola. After noon we skinned some of the birds that had been collected, and slit the fish that had been poisoned pn the lagoon side over a coral head. More skinks and gekkos were hunted. The ship picked us up at 1600 and we sailed for Sydney.