De Burcelin 1964 Feb 14 Punta Suarez, Espanola (Hood) Island, Galapagos. woke up about sunset - lots of morker and earthdew song, little finch song. Not much doing. Shortly after breakfast, I took Ortiz as a helper and set up a single strand 30 foot black mist net in the heavy bush east of camp. The net was at the end of an open red soil-laver area running N-S from the cliff, secured to the E,S,E+ W by bush. As we were setting the net up 3 or 4 Neosimini came over to see what was going on and quickly learn to run under the net (without getting caught. After this was done I wandered ares along the cliff and into the [illegible] Booby colonies and took a number of photographs of scenery and various of the local animals. About 9:30 I saw a Promiceus about the size the one I caught but missed it when it escapes under some lava at the base of a dead bush. After the first check an hour or so after I set up the net, I discovered a small Neosimius hanging from the 2nd Tier, very quietly, and removed it and cli-patched it. I took it back to camp, had some lemonade excel then went back out along the cliff, and spent some time watching feeding finches and Neosiminus. There was only 1 or 2 Tropictids around the cliffs, but lots of fork tailed gulls. I spotted 2 young birds sitting on a ledge on one of the accessible ledges and went down to see if they would fly. There was a # of Geogres nest with eggs along here, and the adults whebbled and rattled loudly as I approached but none tried to