Gill, Douglas E. 1964 153 burrows, most of which had real cute light grey chick in them. So most of our banding was on chicks. Larry worked down the face of the c[illegible] looking for Bulwer's but found no indication they were there. I went back to the car, ate supper, and got my pliers going with a few gobs of spit. Now we both could band and finished off the string of 95 in an hour or two. We were really exhil[illegible] by our sudden success with seabirds. It was fin to get back banding again. We left ahppy and sped back to the fish pond where we decided we were going to sack out. Stopping only for a ice cream, we hit the sack at 11:30, me inside and Larry out in the sleeping bag. The mosquitoes were pretty bad. Apparently it sprinkled again and Larry got wet and crawled under the car caterpiggle style. August 24--Hawaii I got up at 1:30 and got Larry up. I figured we could spend about two hours hunting for Hawaiian duck about an hour to clean up the car and an hour wait for the plane. We got organized and ate some stuff then drove down the hill to get to the road that goes out on the dike in the the middle of the pond. Chinese thrushes were common along the road which became private. So Larry found three more ponds on the map and so we headed towards them. We got a flat on a road which was one of many wrong turns. We finally got out towards the three ponds which were in the middle of a beautiful grassland which was ranched. A Western Meadowlark flew up while we looked at a coot in one pond. The road we were on was lined with a single row of these beautiful tall spine conifers. The area was essentially under the base of Queen