Johnston, D. W. 1964 5 14 Apr Flipper Point, Peale Is. Wake Is. No fat. Incubation patches refathering. Picked up broken wing. Went out to Flipper Point colony in morning. Here thousands of Sooties were on the ground especially around and under the tree heliotropes. Many of these terns had eggs, but there were also freshly-hatched young and young nearly fledged. Only once did I see a nest with 2 eggs. Photographed birds and habitats. Found an adult with f ashly broken wing, so it became a skin. On the edge of the large Sooty Colony were scattered groups (3-5) of Gray-backed Terns. Not only were their backs different in color from the sooties but their eye lines were apparently longer and the call note a more melodious "coo-oo" instead of the Sooties' strident "cree-ck". Found a dead Gray-back young and one just beginning to fly. Over the water were occasional Brown Noddies and two small Hawaiian Noddies. It seemed to me that this sooty colony covered more ground and contained more birds than the one visited last night on Wilkes Is. Saw no frigate-birds here today. Along the road and even back among the tree-heliotropes were scattered Golden Plovers. Spent part of the afternoon skinning the Sooty Tern and Shoveler. Later in the afternoon we rode along the road just next to the main runway, counting Golden Plovers. Along about 3000 ft. we noted 8 Golden Plovers. All these right beside the road and fairly evenly spaced out! Of these 1 was in "high" plumage, one nearly "high", and the rest in winter plumage. After supper we went back to Kuku Point, and just as dusk watched the hordes of Sooty Terns mostly in the air. (There was also a large number in the air at the Fuel Farm.) Mostly these birds are flying into the prevailing winds--easterly. We went to check the