Harbor, C.B. 1965 February 15 Journal Erubing Island 58 Got up at 0700 and walked up to the large frigate colony in Messerschmidt at the north end of the island. In the next two and one half hours we banded our 200 Asth Frigates and put plastic streamers on each wing. The color pattern for the island is: Right wing - Blue, left wing - White. On the way back Larry and I walked through the lagoon looking for Common Noddy and Gray-backed Tern nests. We didn't find any Gray-backed Tern nests on the islets in the lagoon but there were a few Common Noddys eggs and nestlings. It was really hot blustering hot this afternoon so we didn't do anything between 1 and 4 pm. The ship's third duty section came in for its first beach party at 1 p.m. and stayed until 4:30 p.m. At 5 pm we walked down to like two small Sooty Tern colonies and managed to net 300 birds before dark. This colony has extremely small young and a number of eggs that are pippled. Tonight we'll attempt to work the Blue-faced Boobies but don't expect to have very much success. Last night we caught a few but had no luck at all when we tried to work groups containing more than two adults or three birds. This evening we looked at the nest from which we had evicted the large Brown Booby chick last night. Both chicks were being brooded by the parent sow to our surprise.