Hackman, C.D. 1965 Journal 56 February 14 Endeavor Island From what Max said the order to return to Pearl Harbor may come at any moment - we hope not! For the second day in a row the ship let a sixty member come to shore for a beach party. Twenty of them arrived around noon armed with bags for sea- shells, fish rods and 5 cases of beer and 1 case of root beer. By 4:15 when they departed, they were well pickled and lorisitons. Fortunately there is no surf to speak of - if there had been they would have been creamed. In the evening, after it started to cool down again, Max and I went to the small Sooty Tern colony on the south end and banded 99 chicks. Fifty of these were checked for wing mould. On the way back we stopped and checked a Brown Booby nest in which there were two small nestlings. The smallest of the two nestlings had been pushed out of the nest. But since none of us had ever seen how the smaller of the two chicks was removed we decided to mess around a little. The small chick was replaced in the nest and this drew an immediate reaction from the other. By shoving, grabbing a flap of skin and flapping and by dragging, which method seemed to provide the best results, the larger chick promptly ejected the smaller one. It took little more than a minute for the small bird to be completely ejected from the nest. The small chick was too weak to walk still or scramble back into the nest so its fate is simply to sit outside of the nest until it dies of exposure and or