Johnston, D. M. 1964 14 17 Apr Wake Island least 3 of the booby nests, and insofar as we could notice there seemed to be no conflict between the two species. The frigate-birds had an interesting call, one which closely resembles that of a screech owl. In most instances ? frigate-birds were incubating though one subadult ? was also seen incubating. We noted the presence of at least 50 frigate-birds in the air or roosting in the trees. This included some adult males (solid black), subadult ?? (red gular pouch but white chests), females (brown throat, white chest and abdomen), and "immature" birds (white heads, chest and abdomen). They are noticeable nest robbers. As soon as one bird would fly off the nest, others would come and swipt the nesting material by swooping down and taking sticks in flight. One ad. ? set tightly back under the tree about 7 ft. off the ground. We kept it from flying with a stick and captured the bird. Bob dissected it for sperm, then made a skeleton of it. It was surprising to see this number of frigate-birds at the "colony" but so few nests. Even at a distance we could easily see the louse flies crawling all over these birds: in fact several flies lit on my arm. From this colony in the woodland, while Bob was skeletonizing the frigate-bird, I walked out on the reef at low tide on the S and W side of Fuku Pt. Even at low tide there was not much to be seen in the tide pools--both black and brown sea cucumbers, numerous blennies and other fish, an occasional small moray eel (one was banded just like some Matrix water snakes), many crabs, including hermits, snails and other mollusks. At a point about 200 yds. from the "Common Noddy rock" there were some Tournefortia trees growing above the high-tide mark. I had