Feb 19 Punta Suarez, Isla Espanola (Hood), Galapagos. a complete dead adult Albatross with a Brit. Mus. band # 5007269. The demesicles were laid pretty well cleaned out the vent so I stripped off the feathers and took its skeleton back more or less intact. Two Hornkingbirds were very interested in the demesticated and fed for a while by my side in the pile of skin and feathers I had produced. Two doves were feeding under a bush near where I found the Albatross, and I shot both for skins. They were both Fs with poorly developed blood patches and no [[illegible]]-like structures in the ova. Showed no sign of molt. Skin very tough and I had no trouble skinning them out. After this was done I ate lunch and then went out to the Masked Booby Colony and collected one bird off arrest with one egg. The bird had the long "whistle" call, and Bartholomew thought it was a "swallow-headed" bird. With Dr. Miller's Balance the wt was 1.7 kilos. The mouth lining and gular pouch and face were very dark bluish black. The iris golden, the feet blue-grey. The bill was pink, whitish at the very base, and yellowish at the tip. The bird showed no fat; much muscle dung to the necks region and the demis was very fibrous, the feather base very conspicuous and rough from the inside, although the bird did not seem to be molting. The preen glands were very