Huber 1965 March 19 If we were to find out about breeding, we would record whether the sootie was sitting on an egg, mating etc or not. But we don't do this. So if that bird is cought 6 months later on the same Islands we can't say anything but that it is there 6 months later. It may or may not have been breeding either time. Do we really aren't proving anything. Next Where do they go when they leave the islands? We set up a grid area below the Leeward's and in two years it has proved only one thing. Our birds don't go there. There is a very definately trend of our land birds going north (as is proved by returns from Leawards Island birds). So why not start another or move the original grid north of the Leewards. Yes this is suspably out of our territory But so are the Tokelau, Gilbert Marshall and Aleutians. Also there is a lot of suspicion lately on shooting birds at sea but this is all the farther the empires gets. There is a very definite lack of enthusiasm about shooting Sooties, Wedgetails, Bushes and Albatross and Frizates. Reasons are because they never have!