103. 27 Jan (cont) present at the nest now, and there is much egg calling by both members of a pair. Of the 21 active nests, both birds were present at 3 of them. After lunch Bob and I went collecting blood, ectopara- sites, weights and measurements from Blackfeet - we did 5 birds in 2 hours. Bob was a riot - it was the first time he had handled the birds, and he ended up in some highly interesting positions, the bird holding onto him. A system soon materialized out of the chaos, however, and the last bird took the normal 15 minutes. We found a Ruddy Turnstone (FN 20421) on the beach, dead. ✘ 28 Jan., 1965 The last day of rat trapping, we found a few more dead rats in the traps. , and managed to get many new rats. In the afternoon I checked the Laysan nests - there were five chicks, 6 other eggs were pipped, this is 50 per cent of the study nestx that now have pipped eggs or chicks. We may be slightly ahead of the general island population, as we set up the study nests from the first nests we found, so they are slightly ahead of the rest of the island. Spun down yesterdays blood samples, skinned and stuffed a Ruddy Turnstone today. It came out better than usual, but I still need practice. Blue-faced Booby behavior not done this afternoon - I had to finish up the Turnsone after supper. B8 has now two eggs - only one yesterday, so the second must have come today or late last night. Saw the old-time Laysan again today in the same area where we re-banded him in Dec. 29, 1964. He was walking in the colony. (See below) A Red-tailed Tropicbird was found in the Scaevola on a cleared scrape of ground. His band was 605-12677, an adult with the pink tinge to the feathers. He flew off immediately upon release. I have seen RTTBs land in the Scaevola so far this winter only one other time, that was the January 21 Activity Counte from the radar tower. An Adult ♂ Frigate was making continued forays into the NAF gathering twigs and other nesting material - so nesting is underway.