Gill, Douglas E. 1964 152 two days ago. While Larry pressed our plants, I skinned out the Elepaio. He finished way ahead of me of course and saw I agreed to try and finish in the car as he drove to the Kilanec Lighthouse. While we were sitting in road working we heard a loud song which was very much like an oriole, and which I had heard about a dozen in the high county. Larry got a good look at it and identified it as a Chinese Thrush. Immediately after that two Shama Thrushes sat in the hush beside the car. What luck! I struggled with the Elepaio in the shaking car as Larry sped along Route 50 and frequently turned off at a variety of ponds looking for Hawaiian Ducks. He found the Menehune Fishpond by a backroad, the place we went the first day. I finally finished my Elepaio when we passed through Kapaa, after Lihue. We turned off to the right in the middle of Kilauea and miraculously were on the road to Kilauea Lighthouse. As we drove towards the Lighthouse past the keepers house we saw a Short-eared Owl sitting on a low palm frond. And as we were driving out to the lighthouse we suddenly saw a Wedgetail sitting beside the road. We got out and discovered a large colony of Red-footed Boobies nesting in the bushes to the right only a few feet away. And behind the guard wall under those bushes were more Wedge-tails. What a place. Larry decided to band Wedgetails with the string of No. 4's he had. So we started catching Wedgetails. I only had a right handed glove so only caught them but didn't try to band them. We worked along the grass slope around the Lighthouse. It was steep and dropped quickly off down to the sea several hundred feet below. It was riddled with