69 6 Nov. Shore-bird count in the morning. We tried drugging a monk seal this afternoon, but only succeeded in killing it. Although the dose of Sernyl was 2/3 of that used successfully on fur seals, it killed the monk seal within 45 minutes - perhaps the hair seals are much less tolerant than the fur seals, or perhaps this is simply a characteristic of the Monk? The second chick of the Brown Booby pair died, but the first still lives, although today it looked weak. Measured the boobies and wedge-tails today - one wedge- tail has now lost all its down. 7 Nov. Again more paper work. Helped Bob with his Tropicbird growth and development data. Squared away the final Blue-faded Booby material - we are now up to date. After chow the crew jumped me and I got all painted, shaved, and banded. I was a god-awful mess, and now have no hair at p the head. 8 Nov. Chuck arrived A.M. We walked all over the island showing him around, the view from the towers, tagged one seal. Did the Noddy Chick, only one now remains. After chow we read all remaining Black-foot numbers, painting the heads of all birds with green paint. Bob found 4 fish balls, no one else found any - ugh. 9 Nov.At 1200 a large group of Frogates left the North Point roest area, and a squallmoved slowly toward the island; we did not know if it would hit us, but took shelter anyway, basicaily because of the flight away from the island of the Frigates. ]5 minutes later the squall hit, and after it had passed a long phalanx of about 200 Frigates drifted back over the island. 12 At 1530 about 300-400 C. Noddy Terns were sitting in a tight clump on the beach near K2 with 1 ad. Sooty Tern, nearby were 3 Ruddy Turnsones and 6 Sanderling.s At 1800 Seal 218 was found in the Scaevola near K30. At 2100 we went banding. 168 Wedgetails, including many young; 1 C. Noddy, 3 Brown Boobies, and 16 Boning Is. Petrcls were banded. There were many young wedgetails wandering out from their burrows. Study chicks 71, 4, and 5 were checked, and all were sitting within 3' of the burrow entrance.