71 12 Nov. cont usually small flocks of from 2 to 5 birds would fly over the reef together. ~ This happened repeatedly during the hours from 1030 to 1300 with the Red-feet, and is probably correlated also with wind direction, which was from the South today. The Brown Boobies took a different pattern, flying over the West or inside beach along the Scaevola, flying alon the beach, over south point, and then continuing along the inside of the reef until they dis- appeared from sight near Sand Island. Do all the species have their own route? This can b e checked. Is the route correlated with the wind or rather stereotyped and independent of wind direction? There is probably a general pattern overlaying a wide degree of individual variety - time will tell. After dark 5 Wedge-tails (Imm.) flew into the side of the building near our quarters - prob. attached to the light. The young wedge-tails are all losing down, several of todays study chicks had no quills alive, and tonight increased activity of the young is noted. Most will probably be gone very quickly now. Copulations were seen in the Black Gooney for the first time. Several pairs now have nests - shallow scrapes in the sand lined with plucked, green Scaevola leaves. Laysans continue to arrive, but no displaying is yet evident. 13 Nov. The shorebird count occupied a good part of the morning. I had the shore, and counted 31 Golden Plover, 78 Ruddy Turnstones, 10 Wandering Tattler, 7 Sanderlings, 1 Bristle-thighed Curlew, 43 Common Noddy Terns, 18 Laysans. and close to 150 Black-footed Albatross. Also on the beach were 17 Seals, the tags of 8 of them were read. One seal had a broken tag. No. 208 has new pelage, and is very clean and shiny looking in a deep grey, rather than brown, that she has. Other tags were 333, 214, 276, 342, 231, 202, and 249. I banded a mist netted Ruddy Turnstone, finishing another string of 2 bands - 642-00300. Two Sooty Storm Petrels were found in the study area 2 where Bob found them several days ago. One bird we had banded 9 days ago - x612-005bxx 642-00292. The other was and unbanded bird.