106. 2 Feb. (cont.) ectoparasites. The head and back were literally alive with them. The molt on this bird was interesting - a young of the year with red tipped head feathers - molting on the head- the new feathers coming in were also red tipped. I thought this post juveal molt was into pure white head feathers, but apparently not. Seeing many "?" looking Frigates - black heads, white breasts, in which the breast is mottled with black, and a prominent red Gular pouch is showing. Apparently the head of the male frigates turns black prior to the belly molt. One of these males, in Scaevola near SE beach, had an inflated pouch. Went after Bonins tonight as Dennis and Bob went after Red-foots. The Bonins were thick, 30 birds in SA2 alone - 18 of which were new. When will that spot be banded to completion? Never, we still have yet to find more than about 60 per cent banded after all this time. The SA2 ♂ is alone tonight - his ♀, originally from NAF, has now been seen on two occasions in SAF - she really gets around. 3 Feb. It was the best day I've seen on Kure, no wind, no clouds, warm and clear. Part of the morning I spent working up some booby data. In the afternoon did the Lays sans and looked about to see what could be found - another RTTB was found that had a 605 band on it. The Blue-faced Booby behavior after supper was poor - the dictet failed to record, so many observations were lost. After chow we had one of those things that we have all heard about - a tidal wave alert. We spent al- most three hours on the beach before we could come down. Fortunately it was clear, although there was dew to dampen things down abit. This quake was just south of Attu in the far western Aleutians, and registered 7.5 at Cal-Tech, closer to 8.0 in Japan, which is really huge. The swell may have extended as far as 5' up our beach.