Haber W 1964 Journal March 4 at Sea Now for a world shattering question: What are 500 hundred adult and immature [illegible] lesser frigate birds doing roosting in trees (in a long) on Atal if they never nest there? Some with the sooty terns. Continuously all day flocks of sooty terns (from 2-25) fly all over around the island. When asked if they laid eggs there they said no and that the nearest place they knew of that the scotics [sooties] laid eggs was Sydney is. There are so many sooties around that they "catch 50-68 a day" as the natives told me. They take captured sooties and take them out in the ocean and tie strings to these sooties legs and let them squawk and fly around the boat. When the other sooties come down to investigate they are caught with nests. One native [illegible] said after I shot a sooty that a man in the village has a band off of a bird & like that, (pointing to the sootie). But everybody (Maxaua Doy) wanted to leave in a hurry so I never had chance to ask this native to take me to the now. Also with great probablity there was another band in that village that we didn't bother getting, a ruddy turnstone bank. Woodward will go along with me in saying that it is very probable there were at least 2 if not three bands in the village. But when [illegible] natives brought the number