Johnston, D. W. 1964 10 16 Apr Wake Island black except for a brownish throat. Along the lagoon edge I was impressed by the concentric zones of plants. Tree-heliotropes Shrub zone of Pemphis Sosuvium coral water maybe another zone of coral and sand All along the airstrip and occasionally beside the road were scattered plovers. Probably there are 150-200 of these plovers on the island. Many are still rather evenly spaced out along the airstrip, as they are apparently all winter. Perhaps these constitute winter territories. At noon we went back to Kuku oint. Over the Fuel Farm we noted the usual masses of Sooty Terns overhead. Then some distance away and partly over the ocean we saw some all-white birds, about 5 of them at first. These turned out (see next page, Illustration I) to be Red-tailed Tropicbirds and at least 1 White-tailed Tropicbird¹. At a little later on, tropicbirds numbered probably as many as 10 over the point, but it was hard to count them because they wheeled and sailed so far so fast. We got to the point at a good low tide and waded out to the rocks where the Common Noddies were nesting. There were 11 nests on the one rock; birds were easily photographed and each egg was measured. Went over and photographed Brown Boobies. In some cases one was incubating. When I got too close one parent would seize a twig in its bill, a