A. H. Anderson 1964 Birnie 8 November (cont.) midmorning Paul and I banded Fairy terns (86) around the S rum and interior and got some returns. Also found several common noddys nestlings which we banded around the lagoon. After noon we all took fish poison to the N W coast and came up with a relatively small number of specimens. Most of the species had been caught at the other fishcollecting islands - surgeon fish, wrasses, a few eels, butterfly fish, blennies, killer whales, etc. Paul, Dick and I made a futile and circuitous circuit of the island looking for more common nody chicks finding two (2). Ate and slept till noonset. 9 November Birnie - - Enderbury Arose at 1 AM to send the whole force out equipped with bands for boobies, common noddies, Hawaiian noddies, and fairy terns. Fred and Dick did several hundred common noddies and Hawaiians from large roosting clubs on the N interior. Common noddies could be picked up fairly often while one walked between roosting boobies and I almost finished a string on them at odd moments; they became impossible to catch when the first light of dawn came with- out nets and great guile. We caught most of the boobies by dawn and trooped back for the chore of dissmantling and packing gear. Skinned a few odd birds and finished a few odd bands at the last minute and left at 0800. Barely had time to repack gear as Enderbury was only 37 miles away. Landed at 13:30 and moved into the headquarters for Enderbury guided Tours, Ltd. (very ltd.). Moved off soon (after shovelling several thousand hermit crabs out of the shacks) to scout the S half of the island: Banded blue-faced booby nestlings and counted nests, banded R-t tropicbirds, banded and counted brown booby nestlings and nests, counted greater frigate nestlings in the Messerschmidtia and scattered in loose groups on Sida and Lepturus, banded and counted red-foot nestlings and nests in Cordia and Messerschmidtia, and gimped "home". Slept while the sooty club formed a hundred yards from our shacks. 10 November All up at one to do the usual: band blue-faced and get blood samples from everything available. Took 20 blue-faced samples, 20 red-foots, and some sooty terns. Worked the club for about half an hour, getting many returns from Phoenix several from Birnie, several from Howland and 2 from Baker. Then we tried to work the roosting sooty terns by the lagoon but they all flew. Dick, Doug and I walked over to the SE red-foot colony to get the samples in a hurry before we were caught by dawn. Then we took 10 lesser and ten greater frigates to total 100 samples. The ship was meant to be in at 0800 and we all feared that our work would be wasted. when the ship crawled nonchallantly on the horizon. They came in at 0900. At 7:30 all but Dick set out northward for our survey of the other half of the island. We spread out four across, counting and banding; Doug and I hit the tropic birds near the edge nesting under large flat coral rocks, banding about 20 and getting several returns. We stopped at the several acres of Messerschmidtia to band all the red-foot nestlings (over a hundred) and count