Helonka 1966 Journal 3 Dec. Phoenix Is. Aside from the usual nasty thoughts about our captain of always noticing something about the sooty sooties that differs from the northern sooties but as of yet I've never written about it. Why in the southern islands one never sees vast numbers of subad and weird color phases (gray edging to back feathers or crown feathers) as one does in the northern sooty tern colonies. And as for as that goes there always seems to be a lack of roosting birds in the southern colonies. Food for thought. Mights not possibly people on several of the breeding islands be involved. Or maybe might Honisland be in an area where nasty of nesting birds spend their first couple years of their life and are attracted to the breeding colonies. The latter sounds better. 7 Dec. Endbury Is. On Phoenix island there are two places where the WTSP nest in abundance (ubiquity) and only on place when the Buluns get nest in abundance.. The two places for the WTSP are -- two grasses a small grassy area behind camp back down by the lagoon next to the large side clump. The other place is in the long pile of rocks near shore on the sea side of the island. The main breeding area for the Buluns is also in this latter place. Every trip I've ever seen to Ploc. there is been WTSP nesting in the rocks and I've never been there when the Bulun's have been as abundant as they have this time. This trip there was not one Nesting nesting or even found in the rocks only Buluns (which was nasty) and there were a fair number of nasty Nesoprig nasty in the grassy area. I wonder if the two species are incompatible while nasty (probably because of like nasty habitat in small quantity) and this is why nesofriz are way out of sequence with the other Procelloformes.