29 June 1964 Eastern Is. Midway 26. Blood Samples: 20 Red-tailed Tropicbirds 8 Red-footed Boobies 13 Laysan - Imm. 1 Wounded Sooty Tern Died: 2 Imm. Laysan Albatross 1 Sooty Tern All species as before, except: 1. Common Noddy - 3 nests found, each with 1 egg. [illegible] mated Pop = 150 ± 50% in with Grey-backed Tern 2. Gray-billed Tern - found small colony, est. 50 nests in all. Nest is only bare space, generally Pop. = 100 ± 10% near or under cover - optionally cryptic. Birds much more flighty than Sooty Terns. 3 nests found, 2 with eggs, 1 with 1-2 day old chick. 3. Sooty Terns - most on eggs, 1 young found hatching, 2 day old chicks. Less than 3 days old seen. Pop - Prob. 200,000