66. 26 Oct. It looked as though we weren't going to makd the flight over to Kure again, but Kebschull decided to take a look to see if he could land, and after a pass over the island we set down rather heavily in the force of gusty side winds. This island is great. There is much important stuff going on, study that one can sink teeth into instead of banding and bleeding all the time. Most bird species are finishing up their breeding, but Bonins and Black-feet are getting underway. Fleet took rd around to his Red-tailed Tropicbird nestlings and we took growth and development data from them. We found a marked seal on the beach with two unmarked ones. I saw sever Frigate encounters. One Frigate chased unsuccesfully a Red-tailed Tropicbird, another chasing another tropicbird forced it to disgorge but the booty landed in the Scaevola and was not retrieved. One Black-footed Albatross showed up in the area across from the mess hall this P.M. It was a bird that had been previously seen. Bill let his homing rat go 1300 feet from the shack, and it was back in under 4 hours, a new record. We caught and painted 184 Blue-faced Boobies after the flick, and found 3 new adults, unbanded and presumably not from Kure, at least since the project. All birds in the S. antenna field were painted red, N. A. F. - were painted green. "/ 27 October Most of the day was spent skinning, scraping fat, and pinning out flat mounts of Rattus exulans. A mangled live P. hypoleuca was killed and skeletonized. The skeleton box should be fixed up so that the wind does not move the bones about so. Walked part of the beach A.M. - saw no goonies or marked seals. One ad. ♂ ♀ G. Frigate was chasing a Red-tailed Tropic Bird without success. The mist nets appear to catch large numbers of Procellariids, but have a notable lack of success with shore birds. There ate large numbers of Bonin Island Petrels coming in at night, but not quite so common as on Midway. Weighed The last 3 Noddy Chicks. All were present.