10 Nov. A Golden Plover was recought today, and shows a great increase in weight from its first capture on Oct. 11, 1964, when it weighed 92.5g. At that time it had a prominent keel. It now weighed 117.7g - this an increase of 25.2g. in 30 days. It is interesting that they can come back from a weakened and very thin condition so rapidly. Spent good part of day working on Rattus skins, at 1500 went along north beach, saw adult female Gr. Frigate chasing Ad. Red-tailed Tropicbird, who barfed up fish, after which it she retrieved fish in air and returned to soar over the NE beach. Found Seal 219 on N. point with an unmarked seal. One seal had a small round hole where a tag should be, tag presumably pulled out. Found six fish balls. 11 Nov. It was a rainy day - 1.2" for the 24 hour period. Consequently we did paper work. However, Chuck and I went out after dark and banded 12 Frigates, 5 RFB, 9 Bonin Isl. Petrels, and 35 Wedge-tails. The Frigates and Boobies were taken from the fringes of the central roost, and the neck-pole was very usefull for getting birds beyond normal reach. Several recoveries were made, including many new Laysans. 12 Nov. Activity count - this has been renovated and is now more interesting - we still make a colony count, but only once and hour. The rest of the time we observe whate ver of interest happens. Today I noticed that the RFBs have a definate pattern to their leaving the island to fish. Birds will fly SW over the central roost, and then abruptly turn S over the runway opposite the Biltmore area, crossing the Scaevola and then turning SW again, catching the updraft from the Scavy along the beach. When they reach southpoint they head for the reef, and then cruise along a wave or two before heading out to sea. Others move along the East Beach from the north edge of runway and join those that come from the central roost. It seems that small flock formation is a function of the rather rigid flyways the birds have when leaving the island. Often 2,3,4, 05 5 birds would fly together over the central roost, only to break up on the beach and reform with other birds coming along the East beach. Other single birds from the Central roost flyway would sometimes meet birds coming along the beach, so that usual