Johnston, D. W. 1964 18 Apr Wake Island caught readily. We went on over to Flipper Point for banding. Banded 1000 sooties, 9 ray-backed Terns (1 large chick), but banding tonight was not very good. This was probably because of a moon glow through the clouds, so that the terns could see us easier and thus were more difficult to catch. At one point in the colony there were many newly hatched (today) chicks, and here and there in the colony were older chicks running around in the dark. Mostly, though, adults were sitting on their single eggs. So far this year we have had 36 returns of Sooty Terns, banded last year here at Wake. Tonight we got a couple that we banded over at Kuku Pt. This year. We both noted the more aggressive nature of the sooties tonight--many adults not only jabbed with the bill or threatened with open bill, cries, and spread wings but also readily attacked the light or our legs. Found at least 1/2 doz. dead chicks; also 12 dead sooties on the beach. Sounds like human visitors before us. 19 Apr Today the weather was superb: partly cloudy with cumulus clouds in a blue sky, strong SE winds, warm and sunny. In the morning (unday) we went out to the Flipper Point ternery. Yesterday I had moved an extra egg into each of 20 nests, thus 2 eggs/nest instead of 1. Today none of these sets was being incubated, but I suspect one of thereasons was the fact that the original egg (yesterday) was fresh and had been placed too close to the road (greater disturbance from human traffic). We photo- graphed birds in the colony, particularly looking for Gray-backed Tern nests back under the trees. Found 2 such nests each with 1 egg and saw several nearly-fledged yng. under the trees. The adults proved to be too wary to be photographed; they won't sit tightly like the sooties. Around this