Auber 1964 Journal Nov 28 Hono It seem kind of weird that whoever decides where the project goes should decide to go too the Marshall and Gilberts to look for our banded birds when right here at our front door (main Hawaiians and even the leuward) there are more birds than the project could ever hope to check for bands. There are at least 200,000 sooties, [illegible] 3,000 boobies 30,000 wedge-tails 2,000 Bulwers, 100,000 common noddies [illegible] 8 fairy terns [illegible] 5,000 Hawaiian noddies, [illegible] 100 Eligati birds, 75 D. Rampel Petrels, hundreds of white-tailed tropic birds and thousands of Newells and havacouts (leaks?). All this is on the main Hawaiians alone. These Islands are even closer than the Marshall and we shy away like they are poison. There are thousands of ruddies and Goldies here yet they will go unnoticed because it seems that it must be more valuable to go look for ruddies in the Marshalls. I can't see how it is more valuable to find a banded ruddy [illegible] somewhere else in the Pacific than to find it on Popoa is here. Last year Dr. Watson, Mo'Kawai (spelling?) and I watched around 2000 ruddies fly over me one evening.