Johnston, D. W. 1964 26 24 Apr Wake Island settled down. Whether they are now or are going to nest, we do not know. Went on out to Peale Is. ternery where I used a 25 ft.² frame as a quadrat to get density of Sooty Tern nests. Took 105 quadrats and the average # nests/25² or 32.7/100² is a greater density than we get in the Flipper Pt. colony yesterday. #1853. Pluvialis dominica. ♂ testis 7 mm. 190.5 g. Essentially breeding plumage. Wing 176 mm. Molt nearly complete. #1854. Pluvialis dominica. ? fol. less than 1 mm. 153.7 g. Wing 166 mm. Essentially winter plumage with ca. 2 doz. black spots on belly. Heavy molt. Outer rectrices all solid gray-brown. N side air strip Tonight it rained between 7-9, then the moon came out very bright so banding terns was out of the question. We went out to the Kuku Pt. colony about 10, though, and succeeded in killing 2 cats feeding in or near the colony. One the way out we saw at least 3 Golden Plovers beside the road; they were wary and usually flew as the headlights hit them. Density of Sooty Terns on Peale Island came out to be about 200,000 birds. The area on Peale occupied by these terns was about 45 X 700 yds or 283,500 ft.² 25 Apr Weather again very pleasant in morning on way out to Kuku Point we saw only one Golden Plover beside the airstrip. At old submarine channel there were 23 frigate-birds sitting on a wire between two "telephone poles" but they flew readily as I approached. At Kuku Point Sooty Tern colony