94. general location within the colony throughout the day. As the weather was bad, this was a good day, between checks to the Boobies, to remain inside and catch up on paper work - recovery schedules (one Red-footed Booby banded on Kure in Nov. 1963 was found dead on Eastern, Midway on Jan. 4, 1965 - Jim Priest sent the band over on the last plane) Sp un down the blood that we took from sick Laysans yesterday, transcribed some Booby data. In the evening after chow, I spent an hour observing behavior. Of most interest still is the conflict be- tween R2 and 04 for the ? R22. 04 still triumphs, but when he is away R22 will m. twigs with R2 and approach his Sky-calling. Transcribed more data after the movie until about midnight. 12 Jan. In the morning the weather wasn't impressive, so did more recovery forms - those from Midway were finished. We did McBee cards on 7 more Laysans - two to go and we are finished with them, blood from 6 more Laysans - I couldn't find the heart on one bird, so we released him unbled. For the 48 blood samples we have, only 2 birds died accidentally, a 4 per cent mortality. We got 76 Laysan recoveries in the afternoon, and will check the same area tomorrow. Bonin banding by Dennis after dark, I do boobies after dinner, and wander through the SAF at dusk, counting 36 Blue-faced Boobies there. At 1130 when checking the Laysan nests, I saw a SAF Blue-faced Booby in the NAF colony area - the first time such a mingling of SAF and NAF birds has been seen. At any rate, there is extremely little such mixing. There was one real sick gooney in SAF this evening, could not fly and could barely walk. 13 Jan. In the morning we do Laysan recoveries in the samer area visited yesterday - from lab to area 2, fuel tanks, along N. edge of runway. We saw 57 walkers, of which only 16 were handled yesterday, 41 being new birds to get recoveries from. Thus we have a 72 per cent turn over in walking Laysans in the area in less than 24 hours. We check on a sick Laysan seen in SAF last night,