116. Also - 1 RTTB seen - on egg. 20Feb. (cont.) tally well with the high counts on this species that the rest of us have made during the winter. Laysan mixing is minimal. On all the island, with over 2,000 Laysans now marked, we saw only 2 birds in the area in which they were not marked. One Green bird from Central roos, was found in runway area along SE beach (not far from Central roost area), and one orange marked bird was found in the central roost. Large numbers of Frigates, still mostly males, are gathering nesting materials, still Solanum and Tribulus, from the central plain - all in NAF. The plants seized are generally living. 6 birds were seen gathering twigs, and at least 16 nests have been at least partially constructed in the [illegible] north roost. No nests were seen in the central roost. Four new dead Laysans were found in the SAF, none elsewhere. There are now 18 Blue-faced Booby nests, 6 in the SAF and 12 in the NAF. The Brown Booby chick has been destroyed and eaten. Two gulls were seen during the count, one at S. pt. and one at N.pt. They are thought to be Glaudus Gulls. Counts on the other shorebirds are as follows: GP - 47; RT - 81; S - 4; BTC - 4. Two Fairy Terns were seen. There were 35 seals on the island. It rained all afternoon and into the evening, so work in the lab was done. 15 autopsy rats collected. Sunday 21 Feb. Pouring rain all daylight hours and on into the night. Due to the bad weather, we decide not to set rat traps for this evening. The storm looks as though it will persisit. We got all caught up on data, everything from notebooks is now recorded. 22 Feb. The big day of inventory has struck - it was raining hard all morning, misting in the afternoon. Toute le monde is checked out, shelves and trunks are labelled, and we have a rough idea of what is here. Wirtz has been thorough - there is an abundance of almost everything. We went out this afternoon into the mist for Laysan returns and banding. We found, while in the process, another RTTB on an egg - this makes two nests to date. We handled 186 birds, 61 of which required bands, the other 125 we got returns from. These were all in the