P. De Benedetti 1964 Feb 15 Isla Gardner (new Hood) to Pta Suarez, Hood, Galapagos found a pair of Oystercatchers' with a newly grown young bird, and got a nice picture of the pair (I hope). Heard a couple of Tattlers. Tropicidiums were fairly common on the sandy beach, and looked like the Hood animals, very bright, but perhaps a little smaller on the average. The few Marine Iguanas I saw (6-8) were very brightly colored like the Hood ones. Took a mackerel on the beach when we landed; it was feeding in the rocks at the water line. About 3:30 3 or 4 Audubon shearwaters came in and started circling the cliff, and I think I may have gone in; couldn't get both areas they entered. Finished the roll of film with a shot of most of Gardner as we sailed away. My impression of Pta. Cevallos would be an area of lower vegetation than Pta. Suarez. The most striking differences in the avi/anna here are the #'s of Creagases and the lack of Sula metropai, as well as the scarcity of doves. Gardner is a low island, with much denser low vegetation than Hood, and the apparent most striking feature of its avi/anna was the reversal of the fuljivosa - canistris # ratio. Two notes left out from the Cevallos area. Found a dead red heron 1 1/2" dia. and 10" deep under a large lava rock, with a clear runway entrance. Suspect it was of Tropicidiums . Had to hold the top of my nepidograph down a crevice in the rocky pt.'s making life most awkward for the time being. Slept most of the trip back from Gardner. Weighed and gutted two birds I shot, will skin them tomorrow. Wrote notes in this evening.