Kirkpatrick, Ralph D., 1964-1965

Kirkpatrick, Ralph D

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SPECIES KEY FOR MCBEE KEYSORT Diomedea exulans Wandering Albatross 3-111 Diomedea albatrus Short-tailed Albatross 3-112 Diomedea nigripes Black-footed Albatross 3-114 Diomedea immutabilis Laysan Albatross 3-117 Fulmarus glacialis Fulmar 3-120 Puffinus pacificus Wedge-tailed Shearwater 3-211 Puffinus bulleri New Zealand Shearwater 3-212 Puffinus griseus Sooty Shearwater 3-214 Puffinus nativitatus Christmas Island Shearwater 3-217 Puffinus puffinus Newells Shearwater 3-221 Puffinus assimilis Little Shearwater 3-222 Puffinus lherminieri Audubons Shearwater 3-224 Puffinus tenuirostris Slender-billed Shearwater 3-227 Pterodroma externa Juan Fernandex Petrel 3-411 Pterodroma neglecta Kermadec Petrel 3-412 Pterodroma alba Phoenix Island Petrel 3-414 Pterodoona ultima 3-417 Pterodroma phaeopygia Dark-rumped Petrel 3-421 Pterodroma hypoleuca Bonin Island Petrel 3-422 Pterodroma cooki Cooks Petrel 3-424 Bulweria bulwerii Bulwers Petrel 3-710 Nesofregatta albigularis White-throated Storm Petrel 3-720 Oceanodroma castro Harcourts Storm Petrel 3-741 Oceanodroma leucorhoa Leachs Petrel 3-742 Oceanodroma markhami Sooty Storm Petrel 3-744 Phaethon aethereus Red-billed Tropicbird 4-111 Phaethon lepturus White-tailed Tropicbird 4-112 Phaethon rubricauda Red-tailed Tropicbird 4-114 Sula dactylatra Blue-faced Booby 4-121 Sula leucogaster Brown Booby 4-122 Sula sula Red-footed Booby 4-124 Phalacrocorax pelagicus Pelagic Cormorant 4-710 Fregata minor Great Frigatebird 4-141 Fregata ariel Lesser Frigatebird 4-142 Bubulcus ibis Cattle Egret 5-111 Casmerodius albus Common Egret 5-112 Demigretta sacra Reef Heron 5-114 Nycticorax nycticorax Black-crowned Night Heron 5-117 Plegadis chihi White-faced Ibis 5-121 Branta canadensis Canada Goose 5-141 Branta nigricans Black Brant 5-142 Philacte canagira Emperor Goose 5-171 Anser albifrons White-fronted Goose 5-172 Chen hyperborea Snow Goose 5-174 Anas platyrhynchos Mallard 5-211 Anas wyvilliana Hawaiian Duck 5-212 Anas laysanensis Laysan Duck 5-214 Anas strepera Gadwall 5-217 Anas acuta Pintail 5-221 Anas crecca Green-winged Teal 5-222 Anas querquedula Garganey 5-224 Anas discors Blue-winged Teal 5-227

SPECIES KEY FOR MCBEE KEYSORT Mareca penelope European Widgeon 5-241 Mareca americana American Widgeon 5-242 Spatula clypeata Shoveler 5-271 Aythya americana Redhead 5-411 Aythya collaris Ring-necked Duck 5-412 Aythya valisneria Canvasback 5-414X Aythya marila Greater Scaup 5-421 Aythya affinis Lesser Scaup 5-422 Aythya fuligula Tufted Duck 5-424 Bucephala albeola Bufflehead 5-711 Clangula hyemalis Oldsquaw 5-712 Histrionicus histrionicus Harlequin Duck 5-714 Melanitta perspicillata Surf Scoter 5-721 Oxyura jamaicensis Ruddy Duck 5-741 Mergus serrator Red-breasted Merganser 5-771 Circus cyaneus Marsh Hawk 6X-111 Pandion haliaetus Osprey 6X-211 Falco peregrinus Peregrine Falcon 6-411 Rallus philippensis 7- Charadrius semipalmatus Semipalmated Plover 8-111 Charadrius alexandrinus Snowy Plover 8-112 Charadrius vociferus Killdeer 8-114 Pluvialis dominica American Golden Plover 8-121 Squatarola squatarola Black-bellied Plover 8-141 Arenaria interpres Ruddy Turnstone 8-171 Capella stenura Pintail Snipe 8-211 Capella gallinago Common Snipe 8-212 Numenius phaeopus Whimbrel 8-221 Numenius tahitiensis Bristle-thighed Curlew 8-222 Heteroscelus ;incanum Wandering Tattler 84241 Heteroscelus brevipes 8-242 Totanus melanoleucus Greater Yellowlegs 8-272 Totanus flavipes Lesser Yellowlegs 8-271 Calidris canutus Knot 8-411 Erolia acuminata Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 8-421 Erolia melanotos Pectoral Sandpiper 8-422 Erolia fuscicollis White-rumped Sandpiper 8-424 Erolia alpina Dunlin ..427 Limnodromus scolopaceus Long-billed Dowitcher 8-441 Ereunetes mauri Western Sandpiper 8-447 Limosa lapponica Bar-tailed Godwit 8-471= Tringa glareola Wood Sandpiper 8-711 Crocethia alba Sanderling 8-721 Philomachus pugnax Ruff 8-741 Himantopus mexicanus Black-necked Stilt 8-771 Phalaropus fulicarius Red Phalarope 8-772 [illegible] Lobipes lobatus Northern Phalarope 8-774 Steganopus tricolor Wilsons Phalarope 8-777

SPECIES KEY FOR MCBEE KEYSORT Stercorarius pomarinus Pomarine Jaeger 9-111 Stercorarius longicauda Long-tailed Jaeger 9-112 Stercorarius parasitica Parasitic Jager 9-114 Stercorarius (=)Catharacta skua 9-117 Larus hyperboreus Glaucous Gull 9-211 Larus glaucescens Glaucous winged Gull 9-212 Larus occidentalis Western Gull 9-214 Larus argentatus Herring Gull 9-217 Larus californicus California Gull 9-221 Larus delawarensis Ring-billed Gull 9-222 Larus pipixcan Franklins Gull 9-224 Larus novaehollandiae Silver Gull 9-227 Larus philadelphia Bonapartes Gull 9-241 Rissa tridactyla Black-legged Kittiwake 9-242 Sterna hirundo Common Tern 9-411 Sterna paradisea Arctic Tern 9-412 Sterna sumatrana Black-naped Tern 9-420 Sterna lunata Gray-backed Tern 9-440 Sterna anaethetus Brown-winged Tern 9-414 Sterna fuscata Sooty Tern 9-470 Sterna albifrons Least Tern 9-417 Thalasseus bergii Crested Tern 9-710 Procelsterna cerulea Blue-gray Noddy 9-720 Anous stolidus Brown Noddy 9-741 Anous minutus Black Noddy 9-742 Gygis alba Fairy Tern 9-770 Cyclorrhynchus psittacula Parakeet Auklet 9-140 Fratercula corniculata Horned Puffin 9-170 Columba livia Rock Dove 10-111 Vini kuhlii 10-211 Asio flammeus Short-eared Owl 10-411 Tyto alba Barn Owl 10-421 Eudynamis taitensis Long-tailed N.Zealand Cuckoo 10-711 Alauda arvensis Skylark 13-111 Acrocephalus familiaris Millerbird 15-111 Conopoderas aequinoctialis Line Islands Warbler 15-121 Anthus cervinus Red-throated Pipit 16-111 Aplonis atrifuscus 17=211 Aplonis tabuensis 17-212 Gouiehaio carunculata 17-111 Zosterops japonica Japanese White-eye 17-411 Psittirostra cantans Laysan Finch 18-111 Serinus canaria Canary 18-211 Plectrophenax nivalis Snow Bunting 18-411 Halycon chloris 11- p. 3

R.D. Kunkpatrick McBee 1964 Journal Sept. Pacific Ocean 28 YAG (Yard Auxiliary General) 40 Mon U.S.S. Hall left Pearl Harbor at Honolulu with 5 Pacific Project personnel aboard (Hould, Sundell, Bratley, Whitman and myself) and 2 boys from the Univ. of Hawaii (to take oceanographic data). Bratley and I share an officers cabin but all of us except Hould eat in the enlisted mess. I stood the 1st watch, from 10PM to 12AM with Sundell and the 2 to 4 watch with Hould. We stand or sit on the helicopter landing deck which is a raised portion of the fore castle. The sea is scanned with sunglasses and birds sighted are recorded. We saw White Tailed Tropic Birds, a Great Frigate Bird, Brown Boobies, Red-Footed Boobies, Wedge Tailed Shear- waters, Sooty Sheawaters, Sooty Terns, Noddy Terns, and Petrels (probably Cooked). 8PM David Bratley and I were asked to leave the Officers Ward 100

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Pacific south of Hawaii Sept. 29 Saw relatively few sea birds. Tue. A Golden Plover landed on the helicopter deck where we stand watch and a sailor, Seaman Hamby, killed it with a pellet gun. Gould made it into a skin. In the evening the Captain and other sailors were fishing off the fantail. They caught a Dolphin, a greenish fish, that weighed 14 lbs. and was 2ft ± long. Sept. 30 I stood the 6A-8AM, 10 to 12 noon, and Wed 4PM to sundown watch. Relatively few sea birds were seen - Great Frigatebirds, White-Tailed Tropic- birds, a Kamekeck (sq) Petrel, etc. Another Golden Plover landed on the helo deck and again Hamby shot it and Gould made it up. The sea remains fairly calm (4 to 6 ft waves) and the trade wind blows. It is hot but this is the coolest day of the trip so far. A few flying fishes are observed.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Oct. Pacific south of Hawaii Doug Whitman and I stood the Thurs 8 to 10 AM watch on the bridge (or flying bridge between rain squalls). It rained most of the morning. We saw 3 flocks of terns (Woddy and Sotly). Some Petrels were with the flocks. The largest flock had 65 birds in it. Bob Sundell and I stood the 2 to 4 PM watch. We saw 3 frigate birds. Our first Redtailed Tropiebird of the trip flew over. I shot it with the 3" magnum 12ga goose gun. It squawked, feathers flew and it circled again. With my second shot it dropped into the sea. We threw over a smoke flare which didn't ignite but a dye marker did. We circled and a sailor netted the bird from the water. It took us about 45 minutes to retrieve it. Sundel and I skimmed it. Bratley shot a Petrel but it wasn't recovered.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii Oct. While standing the 6 AM to 8 A. 2 watch with Doug Whitman, a Fri. Long tailed Jaeger flew over. I killed it with the long Tom Goose Gun. It was an immature male, the second one ever collected in the Central Pacific. The ship turned from the grid and headed for Johnston Island with a sailor who has a broken arm. I observed a feeding flock of terns, petrels and shear- waters feeding on flying fish. Oct. At daybreak we stood off 3 Johnston Island and transferred Sat. the injured sailor to a tug that took him to Johnston Island. No new species but I observed another Kameck Petrel. A spilor shot an immature Blue-faced Boobie. We recovered it.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Oct. Pacific south of Hawaii 4 I stood the 0000 to 0300 watch- Sun no birds but many falling stars. The tropical sky and sea are really beautiful. Many sooty terns and Petrels in feeding flocks. AM I wounded a Red-Tailed Tropiebird but it didn't come down. PM I killed an immature Masked Boobie with 2 shots from a 12 ga. pump. Bratley skinned it. Oct. 5 Several birds seen but I Mon killed none. Oct. 6 A Restailed Tropiebird and a Great Frigatebird were shot. I skinned the Frigatebird. It was rather laborious. Oct. 7 Practically no birds seen. We are at the far corner of the grid and are more than 1,000 miles SW of Honolulu. Luminescent bacteria or plankton is fun to observe under the bow at night.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Pacific Ocean, south of Hawaii Oct. I stood my last night watch 8 of the trip from 5 to 6 AM. At Thur 3:30 a sudden squall wet me since I was in the bow. During the 2 to 4 PM watch, Doug Whitman and I started seeing various birds. I shot 5 times at a Wedgetail Shearwater with the 12 ga Browning Automatic, hitting it 3 times. It went down and the ship circled to pick it up. It flew away as we approached but Pat Gould shot a Golden Plover which was recovered while we were stopped. Whitman and I processed the Plover. We left the grid and started for Hawaii in the P.M. Oct No birds collected. Several 9 birds were observed, however. Fri. Johnston Atoll was seen from a distance of 8 miles at 1 P.M.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Pacific Ocean, south of Hawaii Oct. 11:50 AM I was on watch and 18 noted a Greater Frigatebird Sat. circling over an oil slick. As we approached, it was seen that the oil slick was caused by a dead Sperm (?) Whale that was 50 to 70' long. It stunk. 85+ Leach's Storm Petrels were feeding around the whale in the oil slick and many sharks were around the whale. We made 3 passes around the whale but were unable to collect a petrel although I fired several times as did other gunners. An officer shot a shark in the head with an M1 rifle. Later, a Leach's Storm Petrel was shot and recovered. A Kermadec Petrel flew across the bow 70 ft. from me. A Masked (Blue-faced) Booby stayed with the ship for many minutes.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Pacific Ocean, south of Hawaii Oct. Several birds were observed but 11 nothing of unusual note. Sun. Johnston Atoll, Sand Island Oct. Arrived on Johnston Island 18 at noon. C. Kepler and Dennis Sun Stadel came over and picked me up and we went to Sand I. At dusk we fed 3 Red-tailed Tropicbird nestlings that are in an old bunker (WWII vintage). Oct. C. Kepler went to Honolulu, taking 19 29 frozen birds with him. They Mon. included one Japanese White-eye, several Great Frigatebirds and Sooty Terns. P.M. Two Ruddy Turnstones (Arenaria interpres) were mistnetted, banded and released. The 3 Redtailed Tropicbird nestlings were fed fish. A Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (?) (Erolia acuminata) was collected. Oct. Ran mouse traps. Expanded 20 mouse trap grid and put out 21 Tues.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Johnston Atoll, Sand Island Oct. 20 droppings boards. Collected a (crit) 20 sick Mus. 8:45 PM to 10:30 P.M. Banded Wedge-tailed & Leanwaters and set the 48 mouse traps on the grid Oct. 21 It rained most of the day. Wed. 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. We fed the 3 young Red-tailed Tropicsbirds, examined the trapped Mus, and weighed and measured the young Noddy Terns. 10 P.M. I set the grid mousetraps in a steady rain. Trap #49 was set on the causeway. Oct. 22 8 A.M. We ran the mouse grid traps; Thur Dennis started taking soil temps. I put up Mus RDK#388. P.M. Dennis and I finished taking the soil temps, fed the three young Tropicbirds, banded seven young Noddy Terns and 3 adult Golden Plovers. We put up a second mist net on the beach east of the barracks.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct 10PM We counted Wedge Tail 22 Shearwaters, set Mus traps and Cont banded a Golden Plover caught in the second mist net. Oct. 7:30 AM. We ran the mouse traps 23 and made an hourly census of birds Fri perching on guy wires and other roosts. P.M. The middle size, young Red- tailed Tropic bird was dead. We froze it. An unidentified duck was seen. I shot it and we froze it. It may be in the genus Anas. A laborer said several ducks of the same kind are on Eniwetok so it may be Asiatic. After dark several of the Coast Guardsmen started catching sharks from the pier. Oct. 8 AM We ran the mouse traps then 24 Dennis took soil samples while I made Sat up a mouse skin. PM I made up another mouse skin.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. 24 (cont) 10:30PM to 12:30AM We banded 97 Wedge-tail Shearwaters. I set the mouse traps and Dennis banded an Upland Plover caught in a mistnet. Oct. 25 Sun. etc. 10 AM We ran the mouse grid then spent the rest of the day on paperwork, 10PM, I set the grid Mus traps. Oct. 26 Mon. AM. We ran the mouse traps, banded a Golden Plover caught in a mistnet, and Dennis shot and recovered an unidentified duck. I made up a Mus skin. Lt. (jg) Rich Fleming came over from Johnston I. He ate dinner with us and we showed him around the island. He is a zoologist whose father is an oceanographer with the Univ. of Wash. Rich is in charge of a Naval Oceanographic Unit here which is mapping the bottom of the lagoon. P.M. We placed field numbers on the frozen birds in the freezer. We threw away 6 of the Sooty Terns that had little data with them.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. We tried to feed the 3g Red-tailed 26 Tropicsbird in the WWII gun emplacement (cont) but it was gone - probably flown away. 10PM to Midnight. We landed Wedge-tail Shearwaters and baited the Mus traps. Oct. A.M. We ran the Mus traps then walked 27 around the island checking the birds. Tues. I made up a Mus. P.M. I made up a Mus. 10 P.M. I set the Mus grid traps. Oct. AM Lt.(jg) Richard Fleming, USNR, 28 brought us a small lizard and a Wed male Rattus from Johnston Island. We ran the mouse traps and walked around the island. At the high tide mark four holes were found in the beach. They were each round and about 5 to 6" in diameter. They went down 8 to 9" then horizontally for 2' to 2½'; Two of the burrows curved left and two curved right. The excavated sand was piled neatly in a mound 18" to 24" from the mouth of each burrow.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Oct. There were bird-like tracks from the 28 burrow entrance to the sand pile but (cont) no tracks left the area and nothing was in the 3 that we tore into. Dennis thinks a crab did it and I think a bird constructed the burrow. Oct. The mouse traps were examined. 29 We counted the birds on Thurs North Island. There were 22 Ruddy Turnstones (I had an orange streamer on it from Sand Is.), 12 Golden Plovers, and 1 Wandering Tattler. North Island has not one spear of vegetation on it. 6PM We banded 4 Common Noddy Tern chicks on Sand Island. Oct. 7AM to 1:30 PM We censused 30 birds on Johnston Island. Lt.(jg.) Fri Richard Fleming rode with us on a 3rd bicycle. Oct. We censused birds on Sand Island 31 and ran hourly counts of Frigatebirds Sat. and Red-Footed Boobies.

R.D. Kirkpatrick Journal 1964 Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Ocean Oct. The 1300 count was not made since 31 the Coast Guardsmen were firing (cont) small arms on the beach. PM. The mouse grid layout was modified. 10 P.M. Set the mouse traps. Nov. 10 A.M. We ran the mouse traps. 1 Noon. I put up a mouse skin. Sun. 9:30 P.M. Set the mouse traps on the grid. Nov. The mouse traps were run. 2 Soil air and burrow temperatures Mon. were taken at the Wedgetail Shearwater burrows. 9:30 to 11:30 P.M. The mouse traps were set. We banded 45 Wedgetail Shearwaters. Nov. 8 A.M. We ran the mouse traps. 3 A Red tailed Tropi bird was banded. Tue The biweekly census report was completed and sent in. PM. We cleaned the shotgun which is kept on Johnston Island and talked to Holmes and Narver Co. people who control rats on Johnston.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Nov Midnight. I set the mouse traps 3 on the grid. (cont) Nov 4 A.M. We ran the mouse traps and Wed. weighed and measured the young Noddy Terms. 10 P.M. I set the mouse traps on the grid. Nov. 8 AM We ran the mouse traps, 5 We collected and pressed 3 specimens Thurs of each of the island plants that we did not already have. We went to Johnston Island and picked up 2 Rattus caught for us by John Makilan, a Hawaiian who is doing rodent control for Holmes and Narver, Inc. 10 PM I set the mouse traps. We banded Wedgetail Shearwaters. Nov. 8:30 AM. We ran the mouse traps. 6 The guy wire census was run hourly Fri. Nov. We worked on Mus. Young Common 7 Noddys and young Wedgetail Shearwaters Sat. were banded. A Common Noddy from North Island was collected and frozen.

R.D Kirkpatrick Journal 1964 Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Nov We worked on Mice 8 One of the USCG dogs killed Sun a young banded Wedgetail Shearwater. Nov. The Mice activity study was 9 continued through the night and Mon day. Nov. The Mice activity study was 10 continued. Thurs Four Wedge Tail Shearwaters were captured and placed in cages for tagging studies. Nov. The Mice activity study was carried 11 on until 7:30 AM. Wed 1 PM The 4 Wedge Tails were tagged and released. The sole remaining Common Noddy young was weighed and measured. Moth crystals were placed with the stored Mice skins. 11 P.M. The grid mouse traps were baited and set. A Common Noddy adult with a broken wing had 5 cc of blood taken.

T.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Nov 7:30 A.M. The Mus grid traps were run. 12 We counted the birds on North Thur Island (PMR = Pacific Mussel Range). Coast Guardsman Joe Brown made me a tool for use in the Point- Centered Quarter Method of range analysis. Nov 8 AM The Mus grid traps were run. 13 We counted the birds on Fri. Johnston Island. I talked to the Holmes and Warner Inc. people in charge of rodent control. Nov Birds on Sand Island were 14 counted and the guy wire survey Sat was run all day. The Mus grid traps were set. Nov 9:30 A.M. The Mus traps were run. 15 The Biweekly report was written Sun 5:30 P.M. Shorebirds were counted on Sand Island. 27 Mus traps were set. 10 P.M. Wedge Tail Shearwaters were counted on Sand Island. The grid traps were set.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Nov. The Mue grid was run. The other 16 mouse traps were picked up along Mon with 5 Wedge tail Shearwaters Killed by the Coast Guard dog. The mice were autopsied and processed Nov. The Mue grid was run. The Mue 17 in the other traps were autopsied Tue. and processed 10 PM The grid traps were set and 4 Wedge Tailed Shearwaters were caught. Nov. 8AM The Mue traps were run. The 18 Wedge Tailed Shearwaters were wing- Wed. tagged and released. Mice were autopsied and processed. Midnight. The grid traps were set. Four adult Wedge tails were caught. 19 Gray-Backed Terns (Sterna lunata) were observed, Nov. The Mue grid traps were run. The four 19 Wedge Tailed Shearwaters were wing tagged Thur. and released. The two unidentified ducks and the Sharp-tailed Sandpipers were skinned out and salted down to be sent to Dr. Ely.

R.D Kirkpatrick Journal 1964 Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Nov. 10 P.M. We set the grid Mus traps and 19 caught 4 adult Wedge Tailed (cont) Shearwaters. Nov. The guy wire census was conducted. 20 The Mus grid traps were run and the Fri. Wedge Tails were wing-tagged. 11 P.M. The grid traps were set and 4 adult Wedge Tails were caught Nov. The Mus grid traps were run. 21 The Wedge Tails were wing-tagged. Sat. The birds on Johnston Island were censused. Nov. Wedge Tails caught on 11-21 were 22 wing-tagged. Sun. Shortbirds were counted on Sand Island. Reports were written. 10 P.M. The Wedge tails were checked for the presence of wing-tagged ones, Nov. The reports were completed and 23 mailed. Mon. The Mus grid was altered and the traps were set.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov. A.M. The Mouse grid traps were 24 run. Tues. A Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus was observed. Vegetation survey of the island, using the Point-Centered Quarter Method, was begun. 11 P.M. Young Wedge-tailed Shear- waters were banded. Nov. A.M. We went to Johnston Island to 25 get drivers licenses. Wed. P.M. Chief Taylor repaired the tool I use in sampling the vegetation. 11:30 PM. We set the Mouse grid traps Nov. A.M. The Mouse grid was run. 26 P.M. The mouse traps were set. Thurs Wedge-Tails were banded. Nov. The guy-wire census was conducted 27 The Mouse traps were run. Fri. A Red-Tailed Tropicbird was landed. The vegetation survey was completed. The grid Mouse traps were set.

P.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov: 8:30 A.M. The Mus grid traps were 28 run. Sat. Johnston Island birds were counted. The Mus traps were set. Nov: 9 A.M. The Mus grid traps were 29 ~~set~~ run. Sun. Shorebirds were censused on Sand Island. Reports were written up. The Mus traps were set. Nov: A.M. 8:30 The grid traps were set. 30 a yg. Wedge-tailed Shearwater Mon. was banded. Reports were written up. Dennis Stadel left the atoll on the evening flight. 10 P.M. The Mus traps were set. Dec. 8 A.M. ET 3rd Doyle (Bear) helped 1 me run the mouse grid. Tue. The station dog killed at least one Wedge-tail chick. North Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific 11 A.M to 2:30 P.M. I censused the birds on this island which is called PMR - Pacific Missile Range.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. 1 10:30 P.M. I set the Mus grid traps between rain squalls. Dec. 8 A.M. The grid traps were run. 2 P.M. I slowly walked the island. Wed. 10:30 P.M. I set the Mus grid traps. Dec 8 A.M. The grid traps were run. 3 Reports were read and island birds Thurs were observed. 10 P.M. The grid traps were set. Dec. The guynwire census was conducted 4 all day. The grid traps were run and Fri. then set at night. Dec. The grid traps were run. 5 Red-Tailed Tropicbirds were Sat. observed on Johnston Island. Rattus, RDK #45103, was thawed and made into a skin. The grid traps were set. Dec. The grid traps were run. 6 Noon: Phil Lehner arrived. Sun. The grid traps were set.

R.D Kirkpatrick Journal 1964 Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. We ran the Mus grid and took 7 blood from a crippled Short Tern! Mon P.M. We cleaned all the Mus traps and set 25 of them. Dec. We ran the Mus traps, autopsied 8 the captured mice, and reset Tues the traps. Dec Same as 12-8-64 9 Wed. Dec. We ran the Mus traps and 10 autopsyed the captured mice. Thur A Short-eared Owl was observed. A perch was constructed for it and was erected. 10 P.M. We searched for Wedge-tailed Shearwaters to band. Dec. We ran the guywire census. 11 Fri. Dec. H.M. Chief Taylor took us to East 12 Island in the LCVP. We counted Sat 3 Ruddy Turnstones and 5 Golden Plovers.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec 12 Noon. We went to PMR (North Island) where we counted 12 Golden Plovers, 2 Wandering Tattlers and one Ruddy Turnstone. Dec 13 Sun. We pinned out several Mus skins for drying. We collected a Golden Plover and set 25 Mus traps. Dec 14 Mon. We counted birds on Johnston Islands. We caged the 20 Mus we caught. We counted birds on Sand Island. Dec 15 Tues. We picked up crippled birds and wrote reports. Dec 16 Wed. We picked up crippled birds, pinned out Mus skins to dry and took the S. I. typewriter to Johnston Island to be repaired. Dec 17 Thurs. We ran a Mus activity study and also separated sera from seven samples of Sooty Tern blood.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1924 Journal Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. 18 Fri. We continued the Mus activity study and ran the gerywire census. The Z.J. typewriter was returned from the Johnston Island shops. Dec. 19 Sat. A.M. We found 2 Sooty Terns with broken wings and we took their blood. Dec. 20 Sun. A.M. We found 3 Sooty Terns and one Common Noddy with broken wings. We took their blood. Dec. 21 Mon. A.M. We found 3 Sooty Terns with broken wings. We took their blood. P.M. I observed birds. Dec. 22 Tue. A.M. The tide was very high. Water came to the base of the barracks and went across the causeway, partially washing it away. We picked up 4 Sooty Terns for bleeding. P.M. We set Mus traps on Johnston Island. We landed a Red-tailed Tropic-bird that I found on a nest.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Johnston Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. A.M. We ran the Mue traps set on 23 the island. (Wed) We picked up crippled Sooty Terns on Sand Island. P.M. We made up 3 Mus skins and one Rattus skull. Dec. We picked up 2 Rattus trapped 24 by John Makalon. Dec. Christmas ?? 25 Dec. We ran the guywire census. 26 Dec. We set the Mue traps for an 27 activity study. Sun. We salvaged two Loran tube shipping crates as bird holding cages. Dec. We continued the Mus activity 28 study. Mon. Dec. We made up 2 Rattus skins (RDK# 29 502 and 503).

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Journal Johnston Atoll Pacific Ocean Dec. We counted birds on Johnston 30 Island. Dec. We counted shorebirds on 31 North and Sand Islands. We set the Mus grid traps 1965 Jan. We ran the Mus grid traps 1 and did the guywire census. Jan We ran the Mus grid traps. 2 Jan. We ran the Mus grid traps, 3. autopsyed Sooty Terns and Common Noddy's. We walked on reports. Jan. We ran the Mus grid traps. 4 Jan We ran the Mus grid traps. 5 We bled and autopsyed Sooty Terns and Common Noddy's. Jan. We ran the Mus traps; and bled 6. and autopsyed Sooty Terns and Common Noddy's.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Jan 7 We ran the Mus traps. I went to Johnston Island and arranged to fly to Honolulu on the 14th. I counted Red-tailed. Tropicbirds on the island. Jan. 8 We ran the guywire survey. We set 25 Mus traps. Jan 9 We autopsied Mus and reset 30 traps. Jan 10 We autopsied Mus and reset 35 traps, a Christmas Island Shearwater was observed. Jan 11 We autopsied Mus and packed specimens for shipment to Washington. Jan. 12 We autopsied Mus and packed Tue specimens for shipment to Washington. Jan. 13 We shipped the boxes of scientific Wed specimens to Washington. Binion Amerson and Norman Heryford arrived.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Hawaiian Islands Jan. 14 I flew from Johnston Atoll to Hickam Field in a C-124 MATS plane then Thurs checked in at the Hawaiian King on Waikiki where Max Thompson and Doug Starks were Jan. 15 Met Bob Banner, Alan Young and Fri. Lorena somebody at the Univ of Hawaii. A botanist identified a grass specimen that I had brought from Johnston Atoll as Poapalum Dilatatum Poir. Jan 8:30-10:30 A.M. I talked to Dr. Peter 16 Rotar, Agronomy Dept., U. of H., about Sat. range mnq't in Hawaii. He told me who to see on Maui and Hawaii. Jan. I flew to Kahului, Maui and 17 rented a car. I drove to Lahaina Sun. and the Iao Valley. I made an appointment to see Gene Cox, SCS Area Conservationist, on Monday. Watched Polynesian girls and women dance and sing where I stayed all night at the Aubilan Hotel in Kahului. Jan. Talked to Gene Cox then drove to 18 Haleakala Crater in Haleakala National Mon Park. Took pictures of range lands, cattle and agriculture.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1925 Journal Hawaiian Islands Jan 18 (cont.) P.M. I talked to Joseph Medeiros, Game Biologist for the Hawaiian State Fish and Game. Flew to Hilo, Hawaii and rented a car and checked into the Kukilan Hotel. Made an appointment for Tues day with Dr. Izuno, U. of H. Exp. Station in Hilo. Evening. Watched Polynesian dances and singing by natives. Jan 19 8 A.M. Talked to Dr. Izuno who called in Dr. Lloyal Sherrod, Animal Twin Breeding Specialist at the U. of H. Exp. Station who I had known at OSU. Lloyd and I toured their experimental farm where he is using sheep in his forage utilization studies. P.M. I drove to Akaka Falls State Park where there is a 420 foot waterfall. The Supt., of Portuguese descent (who hates Japanese and is married to a Puerto Rican) commonly sees the Hawaiian rat. I saw a mongoose in the Park and another one when Tues

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Hawaiian Islands Jan. 19 (cont.) With Lloyd. They are dimna and apparently abundant. Overnight at the Hilo Ankilan where they had excellent Polynesian dancing. Jan. 20 Went on Beef Breeders Tech. Tour by bus. Viewed cattle and ranges on east and south part of Hawaii on Hawaii Cattle Ranch and smaller ranches. Kikuyu (a Kenya grass) is best forage in high rainfall area (150' to 200'). Eye cancer is a problem and calf crop may only be 60% because of conception difficulties. Overnight in Kona at Hotel King Kamahameha. Excellent hotel, good Polynesian show. Jan. 21 The animal breeders and I toured Parker Ranch and the Kamuela U. of H. Exper. Farm. We flew back to Honolulu from Kamuela.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Pacific Ocean south of Oahu Jan 25 Last night was spent aboard the ATF Hitehiti, a U.S.N. seagoing Mon. At 9:30 AM. we sailed from Pearl Harbor. Six S.I. people were aboard - Max Thompson, Doug Hack- man, Larry Huber, Dick Merrill, Paul Woodward and myself. We observed several Pomarine Jaegers (Stercorarius pomarinus), 6 gulls (Larus spp.), several Sooty Terns (Sterna fuscata), one White-tailed Tropical Bird (Phaethon lepturus) and at least three Black- frosted Albatross (Diomedea nigripes) besides several Brown Boobies (Sula leucogaster) and Blue-faced Boobies (Sula dactylatra).

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Howland Island, mid-Pacific Feb. 1 8 AM. We sighted the island on schedule Mon after sailing steadily SW day and night from Honolulu for 7 days. We went to shore with our gear in two trips of the rubber raft. Navy Chief Boatswains Mate Jim Ingold and an Alaskan Indian coxswain took us in. We set up 2 tents and a canvas shade at the landing on the west beach near the Amelia Earhart Lighthouse (this is the island she was heading for when she disappeared in the 30's). Howland Island is approx. 1mi N to S and 1/2 mi E to W with a max elev. of 24 feet. It is coral with herbaceous vegetation (Tribulus, Boerhavia, Lepturus, Digitaria, Portulaca being the major plants). A few WWII shell holes dot the island and a wrecked WWII PBY is on the beach near our camp. Early PM We walked completely around the island counting nesting boobies and banding young boobies. A colony of nesting Sooty Terns is between camp and the lighthouse; another nesting colony is at the SE end of the island.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Feb: Howland Island, mid-Pacific 1 A large colony of Lesser Frigatebirds is on the E side of the island. The cont. ygs. L.F. will soon fly. A colony of Great Frigatebirds are in some dead trees near the light- house. Two Red-Tailed Tropicbird nestlings were found, a few Red-footed Boobies are present and are not nesting. Brown Boobies nests with eggs and with nestlings were found south of camp. Five adult and one nestling Common Noddys are 300 yds. south of camp. Blue-faced Boobies are common and a few Grey-backed Terns are present. Shorebirds present include (at least) Ruddy Turnstones and Golden Plovers and Wandering Tattlers. Mammals are probably not present on the island, sign that looks like mice made it seems to be made by the very numerous terrestrial hermit crabs. Dark until 12:30 AM I landed Sooty Terns.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Howland Island, mid-Pacific Feb 2 8AM. A Navy landing party took Dick Merrill and the collected blood Tues samples back to the ship. Doug Hackman and I bonded and put wing tags (a blue one on each wing) on 1 swaying Great Frigate birds. 7PM to Midnight. We landed Sooty Terns Feb 3 7AM We left the island with difficulty. The surf was so bad that the sailors had trouble. When I left the island I was on the right rear side of the boat, D. Hackman was 3 ft. in front of me. The final breaking wave we went into threw our loaded raft completely clear of the water. My nose hit the back of Hackman's life jacket and we about flew out of the raft. The raft stood up on its stern and seemed ready to flip over backwards. Baker Island, mid-Pacific 11:30 AM. The surf was fierce but we made it in without serious difficulty.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Baker Island, mid-Pacific Feb 3 This circular island is about 1 mile in (cont) diameter. It is drier than Howland and is only 3 miles north of the Equator. The vegetation is slightly more complex than that of Howland. Ipomoea, a shrub Dida Galax, 2 spp. of Portulaca, Cynodon, Lepturus are the major plants. Mice (Mus) and a 4" lizard are the only vertebrates other than a few birds (Great Frigatebird, Sooty Tern, Blue- faced Booby, Brown Booby, Red-footed Boobies, Grey-backed Terns). We set up camp at the edge of a whaler's cemetery containing 20+ graves of the 19th century (one is of a Scandinavian ship captain of 1879). North of camp (which is on the west beach) is a lighthouse (not functioning), an mounted ancient cannon (from a whaler ??), and a WWII cemetery containing 100+ graves with triangular head boards and a rusted infantry helmet marking its location. This was a WWII airbase which made combat runs against the Japanese. Live ammo is found scattered around.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Baker Island, mid-Pacific Feb. 3 Feral rats had been on this island (cont) until P.Proj. personnel killed them and Fred Selby reportedly burned down all the buildings because they had sheltered cats. 2 PM until 5 PM. We assisted the Navy landing party in leaving the island. The surf repeatedly slammed the boat and threw men out so we finally carried the boat and motor to the south beach where the surf was not quite so bad. It really fatigued us trying to launch the raft. 5 PM. to dark. We counted nesting boobies. Feb. 4 I made up 3 Mus skins and skulls and caught several more for examination. After 9 PM (after moon set) we all worked a Blue-faced Booby club and solitary boobies, bleeding them, banding them or reading old bands. Feb. 5 6 AM. We broke camp and carried the whole miserable shel-bang across the Fri. island to the south beach where the surf was not so bad.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Balboa Island - Mid-Pacific Feb: Thompson, Merrill and Huber got 5 off in the first raft with no great cost) difficulty. The raft came back and Harkman, Woodward, T, and 3 sailors loaded it with our gear. We went out at the wrong moment and a wave turned the raft over spilling our gear. Harkman was caught under the overturned raft until a 2nd wave threw him and it farther up the beach. It flipped me backwards and I looked up thru about 2' or 3' of sea water to the sky and saw no boat or gear coming at me. It was a pleasing sensation to not be under the raft. (One of the sailors is named Brown and is from near Chickasha, Ok. and knew L. C. when he lived in Osage Co.). We righted the boat (rubber raft) and collected all our gear except a water can and a bird net. The motor wouldn't run so we reloaded the raft, pushed off at the proper moment and rowed out to beyond the surf where a second towed us in to the ship.

P.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Baker Island mid-Pacific Feb. Chief Bo'sun Jim Ingold was watching 5 our raft spill from the ship. He said (cont) the raft shot straight up out of the water until it cleared the wave, then flipped backwards throwing men and gear in all directions. Equator Pacific Noon. All of us Pollywogs stripped to our skivvies while the Shellbacks set up our initiation. They took us one at a time - ships officers, then me, then enlisted men. We went forward on the port side from amidships on our hands and knees on the slick deck which had salt water and garbage on it. Shellbacks drove us on with 2 1/2' sections of canvas hose. We crawled around the f'c'sle then aft on the starboard side. One Shellback smeared me with Limburger cheese-like stuff and another hosed me down with sea water. King Neptune court was set up on the fantail. The King was a big burly 1st class Bo'sun (a Samoan sailor had already butchered up my hair with clippers at the start of my trek on hands and knees). A Polly- way sailor was strapped at the King's

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Equator Feb. feet on his dog and had to keep barking. 5 The Royal Judge was the Engineering (cont.) Officer. His clerk had no charges against me so they had me to slither under the low bench they were sitting on to the "Doctor" who used a satchup container to squirt some vile, hot, spicy stuff in my mouth. Then I had to kiss the Royal Baby which was the bare belly of a Bum covered with a 1/2" layer of black grease. From there I went into a big plastic swimming pool that was well supplied with garbage and sea water. A sailor hosed me off with seawater, I used a cloth to get the grease out of my eyes and my initiation was over. (The Court also had a Queen who was a sailor with a wig, makeup, brassiere, and grass skirt). First initiates could be labor on the late arrivals but I declined since I take no pleasure in plaguing people. It got progressively rougher as the enlisted men came thru since it gave the men a break from the monotonous shipboard routine. The sea was real rough all night.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal McKean Island, mid-Pacific Feb: The sea was quite rough as we sighted 6 this island at approx 9 AM but we were able to land without incident. The island is covered with thousands of birds. Species seen during our survey of the island included Sooty Terns, Gray- backed Terns, Great Frigatebirds, Lesser Frigatebirds, Common Noddys, Blue-Gray Noddys, Blue-faced Boobys, Red-Footed Boobys, Brown Boobys, Red-tailed Tropic- birds, Audubon Shearwaters, Fairy Terns, Hawaiian Noddys. All are nesting or having. Hackman and I collected ectoparasites and ticks in the P.M. After dark I banded Sooty Terns until 12:30 A.M. then took pictures of Blue-gray Noddys and Audubon Shearwaters before showing Paul Woodward where a few Hawaiian Noddys were for him to band. Our tents and cots were crawling with thousands of ticks. We kept waking to pick them off. Feb: I caught 50 Sooty Terns for Hackman to 7 check wing molt on then I collected 3 Sun. feces funnel samples from a Brown Booby nest, an Audubon Shearwater nest, a Hawaiian Noddy nest.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal McKean Island, mid-Pacific Feb: After dark I loaded Sooty Terns until 7 1:30 PM. Returning to camp we found it (cont) literally crawling with thousands of ticks (we were camped in the edge of a large Sooty Tern colony). Most of us moved our cots down to the beach for the rest of the night, I repeatedly woke up, picked off all the ticks I felt crawling, re-rolled up in my sheet and went back to sleep. Feb We broke camp. I went out in the 8 first boat. We waited in the surf for a Mon long time since the waves were high. Tugging the loaded boat back and forth in the surf was very fatiguing. When we finally shoved off, I was the aft paddler on the starboard side. I was paddling when the first wave hit us. I was washed off the boat but clung to the paddle which was tied to the boat. I hauled myself back to the boat along the paddle cord but about went into the motor prop when the next wave hit. Brown was conscious. He gave me a hand but had keeps working with the motor to keep us headed into the waves. Hackman pulled me aboard.

R.P. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Mid-Pacific Feb We were off Hull Island at daybreak. 9 It is a British possession (as is McKean). Tue Queen Elizabeth visited the native village there not many years ago. The island is now uninhabited although the coconut groves that provided the basis for the copra production are still there. We loaded both rafts and headed for a channel that went into the lagoon. However the surf was so high and the landing areas were so shallow and rocky that we gave up our landing attempt since we might have lost our boats (and our lives and our gear, in my opinion). After going into the surf line we went back to the ship and unloaded the rafts. The ship sailed around to the west side of the island to the old native village. The surf was low so 4 of our party went ashore. Huber and I stayed on the ship and skinned Mouse and Birdie. Merrill brought back a dog skull, RDR #555, and a domestic cat skull, RDR #556. In the evening we sailed for Birnie Island.

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Binnie Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean Feb. 10 9AM We went ashore with no difficulty. Wed. This small British Island is uninhabited and has no growing trees. The dominant vegetation is Boerhavia. A small enclosed lagoon is present. The only mammals present are Rattus exulans, the Polynesian rat. I made up 2 Rattus and collected 17 others for weights and measurements. Feb. 11 P.M. A hermit crab ate the head Thurs from one of my Rattus skins. Feb. 12 7AM We left Birnie Is, with no Fri. difficulty except we sheared a motor pin when the slight surf set us on a rock so we paddled out to the ship. Enderbury Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Noon, We arrived and went ashore without our tents since we stayed in a frame house (built by U.S. in 1939). This island is 3 mile N to S and 1 mile E to W. Guano was worked from the central lagoon in the 19th century (remains of rock buildings and diggings are north of our camp). PM We took blood from Blue-faced

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Enderbury Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Feb. Boobies and Sooty Terns. 12 Feral house cats had been on this island until the U.S. Mgmt. Project killed them "to help the birds". One or more cats may be left here. Feb. We counted more than 900 Great 13 Frigatebird nests and banded several Sat. Red-footed Boobies. These birds were in groves of Messerschmidia and Cordia. P.M. The USS Kitchite had a beach party at our camp. We took Red-footed Booby blood (25 samples) and banded Sooty Terns. Feb. A.M. We banded and put wing streamers 14 on a Great Frigatebird colony east of our Sun camp. P.M. The ship had another beach party at our camp. Feb. I went aboard ship to get food for our 15 groups while the last of the ship's crew Mon. had a beach party. P.M. We banded Sooty Terns until dark then chased Blue-faced Boobies with little success since the moon was up.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Enderbury Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Feb 16 Tues. A.M. Thompson and I walked to the east side of the island to take pictures of Red-Footed Boobies and Great Frigate Birds nesting in a clump of Messerschmidia. We found 3 Red-tailed Tropicsbirds resting under the rock ledge that borders a portion of the lagoon. 5 to 6 PM. We netted and banded Sooty Terns. Feb. 17 Wed. 7 AM. We left Enderbury, Twentyn the firstraft. A very large wave (at least 8' high) hit us just after we shoved off. Fortunately we hit it (or vice versa) just before it started breaking. It threw the gear in the bow up in the air and we were thrown off balance but the raft was not upset and nobody fell out. Canton Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Noon. We went ashore in a whale- boat and stayed until 6:30 P.M., driving 1/2 way around the island and netting birds.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal South Pacific Feb. Canton Island is a low coral atoll 17 with a circumference of about 21 (cont.) miles. A very large salt lagoon makes up the center of the atoll. Two channels open into the lagoon which cause a very strong current flowing into the lagoon as the tide rises and vice versa. We went into the lagoon in the whale boat, while the tide was going down and it took us a long time even with the motor running full ahead. The entrance to the channel was very sloppy due to the swirling water. Canton is administered by the U.S. (where we landed) and by the British. Laborers are Gilbertese who have their wives and children with them and live in house trailers or frame houses. Vegetation is herbaceous or shrubby except where coconut palms and other ornamentals have been planted (and probably watered) around the houses.

R.D. Kirkpatrick Journal 1965 South Pacific north of Samoa Feb: We stood bird counting watches 19 on the flying bridge and shotgun Fri watches in the bow. Thompson collected one Sooty Tern. At sunset I finally saw the green flash which is a band of green color around the edge of the sun as it sinks below the watery horizon. At dusk we passed within sight (17 1/2 miles) of the southern- most island of the Tokelaugroup Feb: The sea is fairly calm. We 20 passed within sight of Swain's Sat Island. No birds observed in the vicinity of the island. Tutuila, American Samoa Feb: We tied up in Pago Pago harbor at 21 9 A.M. Sun. I walked up to the Pago Pago Water Treatment Plant where I photographed the technician, Poloa T. Tivao, Pago Pago, Tutuila. I then walked on up thru the jungle to the

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1925 Journal Tutuala, American Samoa Feb. water reservoir, which is far up in 21 the mountains. On the way there (cont) and back I saw no bats but did see Fairy Terns, White-tailed Tropicbirds, Samoan Starlings, Wattled Honeyeaters, Fruit Pigeons, and Swiftlets. Two and possibly three kinds of lizards were observed. P.M. I visited in the home of Jim Dowell, Secy. to the Governor. Feb. I went on a tour of the island in 22 a bus furnished by the gov't. We Mon looked at the many villages and observed Banded Rails along the road. Flying Foxes are commonly observed flying above Pago Pago harbor. I spent the night in a fale in a village past the Rainmaker Hotel. Feb. Norman Tyler, a TV teacher of science 25 and I went bat collecting in a cave Tue. in Matu'u village. About 50 bats were there. I collected one, RDK #559, on the 7th shot without 16 ga.

P.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Pago Pago, Tutuila, American Samoa Feb 8 AM Norman Tyler brought me 2 medium sized flying foxes (fruit-bats) that a Samoan school teachers had killed with a shotgun on Feb. 24. I made a male into skin and skull RDK # 560. We left Pago Pago and headed north. I was too seasick to put up any more bats after I stood the 12 Noon to 2 P.M. bird watch. Feb Tokelan Islander 26 10 AM We arrived at Fakafo Atoll. Fri Several natives and the chief came out in a boat. They ate aboard ship, then most of the natives (only men came out) sang and danced on the fantail. The native boat took Ensign Rex Alfonso and several sailors ashore and we seven civilians went in with our gear in 2 rafts with Coxswains Harold D. Brown and Winters. The head man took Alfonso, Thompson and myself to the council fale (folly) which also serves as the school house. Many of the citizens met there. They sat on the floor around the edges and we three sat in chairs behind

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Tokelan Islands Feb. enough to be waded. 26 These are the prettiest islands I (ant) have ever seen. An albino native women about 60 years old was noted in the village. No one lives in the village except native Polynesians. I set 25 Museum Specials baited with peanut butter on the small island where our pole is located. One species of rat is supposed to be on the atoll. No bats are supposed to be here according to the natives. No bats were seen at dusk or were observed hanging in trees. 11 P.M. The rat traps were run but no rodents were seen or caught. Four of the 25 traps had been sprung by land crabs and/or hermit crabs. Feb. No rats were in the traps. 27 9 A.M. The 3 natives, other than the capt chief, took me to the next island north and set the 25 rat traps, baited with peanut butter. The natives then killed a land crab, wove a coconut frond basket, cut a Scaevola limb to

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Tokalaw Island Feb sharpen for husking the coconuts, climbed 27 a tree and threw down coconuts, husked cost them and put them and the crab in the basket almost as fast I could write about it. 1 P.M. No rats in the traps. The natives and I rebaited five of the traps with coconut meat and moved one of the traps to the west end of the island. Our native guides inform me that the only mammals present, besides humans, are the pig, the dog, the rat and the rat. Chickens are also kept by the villagers for meat and eggs. Dusk. Two natives waited with me until full dark then we waded to Paka Island. One native used my headlight to catch coconut crabs and the other carried a coconut frond basket to collect the crabs in. The crabs were killed by bending their heads upward. We then collected 2 Rattus exulans. Back at camp I made skins from the rats while the natives cooked

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Tokelau Islands Feb. the coconut crabs and several bird bodies 27 that Thompson and Huber had skinned. (cont.) Next midnight they had the meal cooked. They had cooked over a fire made of dead coconut fronds. Flat stones were placed on the bed of coals and the crabs and birds had been placed on the rocks. They asked us to eat with them. I tried the coconut crabs (I did not care for them). I liked the birds in the following order (top to bottom) Bristle-thighed Curlew, Hawaiian Noddy, Brown Booby, Lesser Frigate. The natives liked the Frigates best but we did not care for their flavor, possibly because we have handled too many of the scaly, stinking things. Feb. We left the atoll without incident. 28 Sun. Nukunono Atoll, Tokelau Islands Noon. We arrived at this large atoll which consists of 70 low coral islands within a reef that is 85 miles in diameter (although it is not round). Approx. 525 Polynesians inhabit this atoll. Many of them have Portuguese blood in them as a result of blackbirders

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Nukunonu Atoll Tokalau Islands Feb. frequented the Tokalaus during the last half 28 of the 19th century. (cont) All the natives are Roman Catholic. An American man from Mass. (came to South Pacific in 1933) and a young New Zealand priest are on the atoll. Sea planes come to the islands 4 or 5 times a year and ships come for copra and the excellent weavings of the people 4 times a year. Unlike Fakaofo Atoll, wells here are salt so the people catch rainwater from some of the rooftops. Fresh coconuts furnish drinking water. We went with 3 natives in 2 of their boats (powered by out motors) to a fale on an island approx. 8 miles across the lagoon from the village. Hackman collected insects, Thompson and Huber collected birds, Woodward collected plants. After dark I took the .22 pistol and unsuccessfully hunted for Rattus. Set 5 snap traps. Mar. No Rattus were in the traps. 1 Ambrose (Apollo) Perez, Post Office, Nukunonu, Mar. Tokalau Islands, via Western Samoa,

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Nukunono Atoll, Tokelau Islands Mar and I took rat traps, the .22 pistol, and the 1 16ga. single in a longboat to another island. (cont.) We burnt coconut meat as rat bait and we set the traps. We caught skinks, two centipedes and I shot 2 Rattus exulans. P.M. I made up the rat skins (amid a swarm of coconut flies). After dark I helped Hackman catch insects. (The word Tokelau means “tip of the Pandanus leaf”) Mar We went to the village where the 2 Priest (a young New Zealander) fed us and the village had a dance for us. In the dance Pale the older men were at one end, the young men at the other, and the girls were in between. We sat in chairs facing them. Each group danced separately. Later we twisted with the girls for one dance then at the end a girl put a lei around each of our necks. We went aboard ships at about 10:30 P.M. and sailed away.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1945 Journal Atafu Atoll, Tokelau Islands Mar Noon. We went ashore at the village 3 and went through a channel into the Wed. lagoon. We went across the lagoon in the two rubber rafts with our gear and approx. one dozen natives. We stopped at a large island. Huber and Merrill shot birds, Hackman collected insects, Woodward collected plants, Thompson collected fish and I collected lizards, geckos and rats (with the aid of a native boy named Peo). We were soaked by a down- pour of rain. In the evening we went to a small island that had 2 fales on it (where sick natives went to recuperate). We set up camp. After dark, I used the pistol to collect 2 Polynesian rats then I made them into study skins (RDK #566 and RDK 567) Mar. I took Peo and a native schoolteacher, 4 Amuria Batea, with me to run the Thu rat traps on the island where we had collected on the 3rd. We left the atoll.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Tokelau Islands These are a group of 3 low coral atolls (or four if Swains Island is included as it often is) belonging to New Zealand and inhabited by 1800 Polynesians and 2 whites (a New Zealand R.C. priest [Marist Order] and a U.S. nun) The atolls are each made up of numerous islands within an encircling reef. Dominant vegetation includes coconut trees, pandanus and paperbark trees, seagrape, ferns and a saltbush. Among the birds present are Lesser Frigatebirds, Pacific Pigeons, Hawaiian Noddys, Booty Terns, Red-footed Boobies, New- Zealand Cuckoos, Fairy Terns, Common Noddy, Bristle-thighed Curlew, Black-naped Tern, Ruddy Turnstones, Brown Booby, Reef Heron (white and dark phases), Wandering Tattler, Golden Plover, Sanderling, and Domestic Chickens Mammals present include only the human, the pig, the dog, the cat, and the Polynesian rat.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Tobelani Islands Mar Three spp of reptiles occur (other than 5 marine turtles) - 4 geckos and 2 lizards. (cont) The men are well-built and usually lean. The women are usually well-built but many tend to become obese as they age. The people are the height of the average American or are slightly shorter. They are brown-skinned and have black hair that is straight to wavy but is not kinky. The women wear their hair long but most of the men wear their hair cut in the European style. Most men are clean shaven but a few have mustaches, a few have sideburns and a few have a tuft of hair growing beneath the lower lip or under the chin. A few men, particularly on Nikunomu, have a long wide sideburn and are only clean shaven on the upper lip and beneath a line straight back from the corner of the mouth. Perhaps this latter style comes from the infusion of Portuguese blood that is most pronounced on Nikunoru Atoll. At least 3 half-caste children were born on Atafu Atoll during WWII when U.S. C.D. were stationed there. Polynesian girls apparently desire half-caste children

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Tobelau Islands Mar. People usually marry between the ages 5 of 17 and 20. Young married couples (cont.) move into a fale (or whale, as they spell it) occupied by the family of one or the other but usually of the husband. Unmarried man may have sexual relations with unmarried women by secretly going to her at night in her fale. The girls father and brothers become angry with the suitor if he is discovered (the Nukunono Postmaster told me that he was hit in the head with rocks on Fakaofo when he stumbled and aroused the father and brother when leaving a fale at 3AM [when the first cock crowed]). Married men may visit unmarried girls, but this is rather unusual. Children are much desired and bearing an illegitimate child casts no stigma on the mother or the child. The Atafu girls were quite open in expressing a desire to sleep with us. People may live to an advanced age. The oldest person in each village was in their 80s or 90s. The dead are

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Tokelan Islands May placed in a wooden coffin and are 5 buried on the same day they die, unless die they die late in the evening. The cemeteries on Fakafo and Atafu are on islands near the village but the cemetery on Nukunonu is near the priests house in the village. The people have forgotten the old gods and no longer worship them. An old pagan altar open temple is on Fakafo but I could not learn the names of the gods that had been worshiped there. All the people are now Roman Catholic or protestant (London Missionary Society). Fakafo is mainly LMS with some R.C.'s. Atafu is all LMS and Nukunonu is all R.C. The Church has attempted to alter the sexual habits of the people on Nukunonu by watching the young girls very closely. They appear to only be partially successful due to the natural inclinations of the girls and the absence of effective artificial light at night. A very high percentage of the people smoke cigarettes. Both men and women

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Tokelau Islands. Mar. indulge when given an opportunity although 5 the priest, pastors, and teachers discourage Cont children from smoking. The govt. does not allow the natives to have European beer and liquors and prohibits them from making coconut beer. The natives appear to enjoy alcoholic beverages very much and drink them whenever possible. The people eat fish (raw and cooked), coconut, pandanus fruit, the roots and fruit of a taro-like plant; pigs, chickens, eggs, and wild birds (particularly the Lesser Frigatebird which they relish. They catch them by climbing trees on dark nights and grabbing them. They net shore birds), bananas, and coconut crabs. European foods imported and eaten are restricted to flour, sugar and rice. A meal was prepared for us on Fakaofo by the natives building a fire of coconut husks and dried fronds. After a bed of coals was attained, clean smooth flat rocks were placed on the coals and ungutted bird bodies and whole coconut crabs were placed on

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1945 Journal Tokelan Islands Mar 5 (cont) the rocks to cook. The food was served to us from a basket woven from a coconut frond. Other tree leaves were placed in the bottom of the basket to retain heat and to keep the food from falling thru. Only Fakaofo has potable fresh water wells but even here the water is mainly used for washing. The other atolls obtain wash water from rain barrels and tanks which catch water running off the fole roofs. The natives drink coconut milk instead of water. Only the men go out to the coconut groves to gather copra or go to sea to fish. The women clean the fale, take care of clothes and children, cook, and do handicraft such as weaving baskets and mats and fans. The men wear shorts under a lava- lava and sometimes, a shirt or T-shirt. The women wear dresses or skirts and blouses or a parong. They are bare breasted apparently when palongis are not around. Brassieres are a rarity. Children may be naked up to the age of 4 or 5 years.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Jarvis Island, Line Islands, Pacific Mar. 4PM. We arrived at this desert 7 island which is 12 miles south of the Sun Equator. Two narrow channels go thru the reef near the SW corner of the island. The surf was dangerous but we got 2 rafts in without mishap. All sailors went back to the ship in one raft because of the dangerous surf. They made it without mishap even though the motor failed and they had to paddle out. After dark we landed birds and killed rats. Birds present include Brown Boobys, Red-footed Boobys, Blue-faced Boobys, Red-tailed Tropici-birds, Sooty Terns, Gray- backed Terns, Wandering Tattlers, Lesser Frigatebirds, Great Frigatebirds We stayed in a house that had been created for International Geophysical Year personnel. Mar. The surf was very high at the 11 landing so we carried our raft and Thur gear to the south side of the island; then waded between the beach and the reef, towing the loaded raft around

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Jarvis Island, Line Islands Mar. to the NE part of the island (about 2 miles) " to a calmarea where we could cross (cont) the reef. The calmarea had many (40+) black-tipped sharks in it. They were 4 1/2 to 5 1/2' long. We got outside the reef but the motor failed. A raft of Navy people then towed us but the sea was very rough and we (and they) just about capsized. At one point I was thrown out of the boat while trying to keep the boats together. At one PM we crossed the Equator heading north. Christmas Atoll, Line Islands Mar. We landed with 2 rubber rafts and 12 a motor whale boat, Fri. We landed birds on various Thu islands of this atoll which is Mar. reputed to be the largest atoll 15 in the world. The lagoon is more than 10 miles in diameter.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Palmyra Atoll Line Islands Mar 2 P.M. Five S.I. people (excluding 16 Hackman who stayed aboard ship Tue with an infected leg) and Al Samuelson, the Bishop Museum entomologist, landed and set up camp at the WWII U.S. air base. Bunkers are on many of the islands and there are remains of barbed wire entanglements around each island. This atoll has a high rainfall causing the vegetation to be very lush. In areas that were undis- turbed during WWII, there are very tall Pisonia trees that are 6' + in diameter. Dominant climax vegetation seems to be coconut palm, Pisonia and Scaevola. The old landing strip is being vegetated by Lepturus and other grasses, then Sida (a 2 to 3' tall shrub), then Scaevola and coconut. This plant succession seems to be more rapid than the succession from bare ground to climax in the temperate zone.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands Mar. 16 We banded Sooty Terns in the large nesting colony that is (located) located on the runway. Mar. 17 We again banded Sooty Terns after dark. Mar. 18 We banded and bled Red- footed Boobies around the edges of islands on the east side of the atoll. Mar. 19 We returned to the Nitehiti and headed for Honolulu.

SPECIES ACCOUNT R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Anous stolidus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. 2 P.M. Seven young Brown 22 Noddys (Common Noddy Terms) were catched by hand and banded on the eastside of the island. Nov. The last young was weighed and 11 measured. All the others in the development study have flown or disappeared. 11 P.M. An adult with a broken wing was bled. 5 cc. of blood was obtained. Dec. A.M. An adult that had broken a 20 wing by hitting a guywire was found. We unsuccessfully tried to take its blood.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Arenaria interpres Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. 3:30 PM Two adults were 19 caught in the mist net set up in the Coast Guard Station lawn near the tennis courts. They were banded and orange vinyl plastic was attached to their legs, then they were released.

P.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Asio flammeus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov 8:30 A.M. Dennis Stadel and I 24 observed an adult Short-eared Owl leave a Wedge-tailed Shearwater Burrow and fly east. The burrow was just south of the road that transverses the Mus grid. The bird circled around and probably did not leave the island. No attempt was made to collect it. Dec. 9 A.M. Phil Lehner and I observed an 10 adult flush from the ground, 10 feet from us and fly toward Johnston Island. Frigatebirds harassed it as it flew past the islet. It had flushed from the ground surface in the Lepturus west of the road which goes to the old pier. P.M. We constructed a perch and placed it in the Lepturus south of the Mus grid. Four owl pellets were picked up near where the owl had flushed.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Canis familiaris Fakaofu, Tokelan Islands Feb 27 Our native guides inform me that many dogs are kept in the village to kill rats and as pets. Some are sometimes taken to other islands of the atoll to kill rats. Dogs are not eaten by the villagers and do not bite the children. Nukunono Atoll, Tokelan Islands Feb 28 No dogs are on this atoll. According to the resident American nun, an Alsatian dog was brought to the atoll within the past 10 years. She wished to be rid of the animal so the natives ate it. Atafu Atoll, Tokelan Islands Mar 3 One dog is kept on the atoll at the village. According to the natives, the village children tease it and have made it ill-natured. They claim that they do not eat dogs.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Diomedea nigripes Pacific Ocean south of Oahu Jan 25 Two, and later 3, Black-footed Albatrosses began following the ship just after we cleared Pearl Harbor. They flew just about above the water surface and were not observed to feed or set down even though they followed the ship until sundown.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Erolia acuminata Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. 6:30 PM An adult Sharp-tailed 19 Sandpiper was observed near several Ruddy Turnstones and Golden Plovers. It was collected with a shotgun since the identification was not certain. It was weighed, measured and frozen. Ectoparasites were collected. Prior to being shot, it walked around and flew up to 15 feet high without vocalizing. The buffy neck and upper breast were very apparent in the living bird. It could be approached to within 20 feet.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Felis domestica Pacific Feb: Howland, Baker, Hull and Enderbury all had feral cats until they were killed off by Project personnel. A Hull specimen skull was collected as RDK #556. Enderbury may still have a few cats on it since 2 bird carcasses appeared to have been fed on by a cat. Tokelan Islands Feb: Thompson observed one cat on an 26 island across the lagoon from the village on Fakafo Atoll. Feb: Our native guides on Fakafo say 27 that there are many cats in the village and on other islands of the atoll. They are kept to kill rats and as pets. They are not eaten and are fed fish. Nukunono Atoll, Tokelan Islands Feb: Cats were observed in the village and 28 2 cats were seen on an uninhabited island 8 miles from the village.

R.D./Kirkpatrick 1965 Felis domestica Atafu Atoll, Tokelan Islands. Mar. 3 Many cats are present on the atoll. The natives keep the cats as pets and to eat rats. They do not eat the cats. Jarvis Island, Line Islands. Mar. 7 211 cats were killed by ATF trip personnel during their stay here March 14-19, 1964. Many more were seen but not killed. The killed cats were in poor physical shape. On the present trip, 12 cats were killed, included at least 7 kittens and 2 lactating females. All of the cats killed were in excellent physical condition. At least 2 cats are known to still be on the island since they were seen but not killed.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Fregata minor Land Island Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. 6 PM. An immature, unbanded 19 Great Frigatebird was being kept on a small islet where a WWII bunker is located because its right wing was damaged when it flew into a guywire of the highest Loran tower. When we approached it to force-feed it fish it took off. After flying poorly for about 40 feet, it started flying well and soon was lost among the hundreds of others of the same species that were circling around. Nov: SA Terry Dutcliffe and some other 28 Coast Guardsmen including enlisted men from the USS Blackhaw; fired many rounds from small arms on the island. Nov Chief Riggins and I examined 29 8 birds (including band #2737- 44543, 737-44241, 737-44542) dead from being shot, probably with a .22 caliber weapon. Dec P.M. The nesting or breeding colony 2 was deserted and the 5 nests (3 with eggs) were apparently abandoned since the eggs were rolled away from the nests.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Fregata minor Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. PM. A dead immature female was 3 found under the tower guywire where it had killed itself. Dec. AM. A female was incubating a 19 single egg on a nest on the south side of Sand Island. The egg was not there on Dec. 17. Dec. 6:30 PM. Two adult females were 21 observed flying close together over 100 feet the island (along with many other frigates). One was harassing the other by flying at it and pecking it. The harassed bird made a visible effort and regurgitated a 4

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Fregata minor Enderbury Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Feb. 14 A large colony of nesting Great Frigatebirds were banded and nylon wing streamers were attached. Part of the colony had been disturbed on Feb. 12 when that part was censused. Today that area of the colony had very jumpy birds that flushed wild. Birds in the undisturbed part of the colony were easier to catch. A blue streamer was placed on the right wing and a white one on the left ". Each streamer was 1/2" x 14". They were long enough but should have been 3/4" to 1" wide. The blue color did not show up well to the unaided eye when the bird was flying more than 75 feet away. The white was quite obvious, however

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Heteroscelus incanus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec 2 P.M. An unbandled adult was 2. observed near the water's edge near the east end of the causeway. Dec 11:15 A.M. Two unbandled adult 4 Wandering Tattlers were observed along the south side of the causeway - one at the east end and one mid-way out.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. 11 PM I baited and set the 25 19 traps on the grid. Six mice were seen and at least 3 mice were in traps by the time I finished setting all the traps. Oct. 8:30 A.M. Had 17 mice, including 20 an unmarked one, in traps. 10 A.M. Used 23 traps to expand grid to 70' X 30'. Trap #'s 26 through 48 were set at 10' intervals whereas traps 1-25 were left in their old positions with 5' intervals. ↑ N 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 34 33 32 25 24 23 22 21 44 43 16 17 18 19 20 29 30 31 15 14 13 12 11 45 46 6 7 8 9 10 28 27 26 5 4 3 2 1 48 47 The grid now includes 2,100 sq. ft. of area. 3:30 P.M. 21 dropping boards were cut from cardboard and

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Oct. 20 placed in two lines through the most heavily vegetated part of the island (at east end of causeway) to see if the mice will use them. 4 P.M. A sick mouse was tagged (but not given a collection number) and frozen. It may have been dying from Warfarin. No ectoparasites were noted. Oct. 21 1 P.M. The dropping boards were examined. They were wet and soggy since it was raining. One mouse scat was on each of two boards. Either rain had washed away the other scats or mice did not use the boards. 31 mice were found in the 48 traps on the grid. 9 of them had not been trapped before. 8 of the 9 were toe-clipped. The ninth was not since it seemed weak and chilled - it was released. Oct. 22 27 mice were in the 48 grid traps. 7 of them had not been trapped

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. before. 22 An adult ♂ #4 was caught in (cont) trap 49 which was set on the cause- way. I made it into skin and skull RDk #388. The eyeballs were saved in 10% formalin. It was not particularly fat. 10 P.M. ♂ #234 was found dead in trap 48 while the traps were being set. Oct. I caught RDk #389 in trap 49 on 23 the causeway. Oct. RDk #♂ 390 and 391 were caught in 24 trap 49 on the causeway. Four ½-gallon milk cartons (with the top cut off) had been put out west of the grid on 10-23-64. Two of them had Mus feces in them today. Oct. I caught RDk #392 ♂ in trap 49 on 26 the causeway. Oct. A total of 10 ½-gallon milk cartons are 27 out. The mice seem to defecate in them only very sporadically.

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1941 Mure musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Oct. A total of 29 mice (including 3 new 27 ones) were trapped on the grid. (cont.) RDK #2 3937 and 3940 were made into study skins. They had been caught at midnight by hand on the central part of the island. F #393 had had at least one litter but was not lactating now. She had 10 mammae (6 in the pectoral region and 4 in the inguinal region). Oct. A total of 36 mice (including 2 31 unmarked ones) were trapped on the grid. The grid was modified to : 70' 55 36 + 10' -> 37 .38 .39 .40 .41 .42 48 + 5 26 27 28 47 + 10' -> 34 33 32 1 13 5 44 43 46 45 ++ 13 14 27 30 27 29 30 31 11 13 15 45 46 43 44 21 23 28 22 23 24 W <- 90' 28 27 26 21 23 25 48 47 42 44 48 34 38 47 36 35 B Road Road 2 4 6 7 8 9 10 12 24 22 20 19 18 17 16 14

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Nov: A.M. A total of 35 mice (including 1 $10 unmarked ones) were trapped on the new grid. Two of the unmarked ones were destroyed because they were overheated in the traps and it was felt that they would not survive. One of the 2 was made into skin and skull RDK #396. 9:30 to 10 P.M. The 48 grid traps were set. Nov. 8:30 to 9 A.M. A total of 36 mice (including 2 seven unmarked ones) were found in the grid traps. These Mice will not use dropping boards or open ½-gallon milk cartons to defecate on or in. The only use made of them was incidental or accidental. The mice do use Wedgetail Shearwater burrows for cover as well as vegetation and debris on the ground since they are commonly observed, day as well as night, running into and out of the burrows constructed by birds. Nov. 8 to 8:30 A.M. A total of 37 mice 3 (including 7 unmarked ones) were found on the grid.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov. 9 A.M. 38 mice (including 5 4 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. Nov. 8 A.M. 40 mice (including 4 unmarked 5 ones) were caught on the grid. 11 P.M. It was noted that mouse eyes reflect the light of a flash- light (which is characteristic of nocturnal animals). Nov. 8:30 A.M. 29 mice (including 3 6 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. Nov. The traps were not set last night. 7 7:30 A.M. I set all the grid traps but did not bait them. 9:30 A.M. No Mus were in the traps. 11:30 A.M. " " " " "" 1:30 P.M. " " " " "" 3:30 P.M. " " " " "" 5:30 P.M. One Mus (marked) was in the traps. 7:30 P.M. 15 Mus (including 2 unmarked ones) were in the traps. Nov. 3:30 A.M. 33 Mus (including 5 8 unmarked ones) were in the unbaited traps.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov. 7:30 A.M. 16 Mue (all marked) were 8 in the unbaited grid traps. (cont.) 9:30 AM One marked Mue was caught. 11:30 A.M. No Mue were trapped. 1:30 P.M. One marked Mue was caught. 3:30 P.M. One Mue (#301871) was caught in trap #39. 5:30 P.M. One Mue (#38197) was caught in trap # 13. 7:30 P.M. Eleven Mus (including 3 unmarked ones) were caught. It rained very hard just as we finished and #424, which had been caught in trap # 22, was released at the signal tower building in the center of the island. 9:30 P.M. Thirteen Mus (all marked) were caught. 11:30 P.M. Eleven marked Mue were caught. Nov. 1:30 AM. Eight Mus (7 of them marked) 9 were caught in the unbaited grid traps. 3:30 A.M. Five Mus (4 of them marked) were caught in the traps. 5:30 A.M. Two marked Mue were caught. 7:30 A.M. One " " was " 9:30 A.M. No Mus were caught.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov 11:30 A.M. No Mus were caught. 7 12 Noon. A rain squall occurred. (cont.) 1:30 P.M. No Mus were caught. 3:30 P.M. " " " 5:30 P.M. " " " 7:30 P.M. Five Mus (including 2 unmarked ones) were caught. 9:30 P.M. Four Mus (including 1 unmarked one) were caught in the unbaited traps. 11:30 P.M. Six Mus (including 2 unmarked ones) were caught. All the traps were cleaned, adjusted and baited with dry rolled oats. Nov. 9:30 A.M. 38 Mus (including 7 10 unmarked ones) were caught. 10 AM all the traps were rebaited. 11:30 A.M. Two marked Mus were in the traps 1:30 P.M. " " " " 3:30 P.M. Four Mus (including one unmarked one) were in the baited traps. 5:30 P.M. Nine Mus (including 4 unmarked ones) were in the traps. 7:30 P.M. 22 Mus (including 7 unmarked ones) were in the traps.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov 9:30 P.M. 40 Mue (including 5 10 unmarked ones) were caught. (cont.) 11:30 P.M. 33 Mue (including 8 unmarked ones) were caught. Nov 1:30 A.M. 30 Mue (including 7 11 unmarked ones) were caught. 3:30 A.M. 24 Mue (including 5 unmarked ones) were caught. 5:30 A.M. 28 Mue (including 4 unmarked ones) were caught. 7:30 A.M. 8 marked Mue were caught. The traps were closed. 11:00 P.M. The traps were baited and set. Nov 7:30 A.M. 42 Mue (including 4 unmarked 12 ones) were caught in the 48 grid traps. Nov 8 A.M. 38 Mue (including 3 unmarked 13 ones) were caught in the 48 grid traps. Nov 10 P.M. The grid traps were set. 14, Nov 9:30 A.M. 40 Mue (including 3 un- 15 marked ones) were trapped.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov 5:30 P.M. 27 traps were set in 15 a line SE of the tall tower. (cont) 10 PM The grid traps were set. 23 of the 27 other traps had mice in them. I took them to the barracks Nov. 8 AM. 47 Mus (3 of them unmarked) 16 were caught on the grid. The remaining 4 traps set SW of the tall tower had mice in them. We weighed, measured, autopsied, and processed 21 mice. Two additional mice were found to be toe clipped- they were returned to the grid and released. They were #s 486 and 469. 9:30 PM The grid traps were set and 23 other live traps were set in a line running NE from the tall signal tower. Nov. 8 AM. 41 Mus were in the grid traps. 17 All were already marked. 8:30 AM. 19 Mus were in the 23 traps set NE of the tower. 21 Mus were autopsied and processed. Mus # 252 and 202 were caught in the 2nd string of traps. They were released on the grid. 10 AM, 26 traps were set plus 27 others South of tower.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Nov: 8AM A total of 40 Mus (including 18 /unmarked one) was caught on the grid. Ten Mus were caught in the line of baited live traps running south from the Signal Tower. Midnight. The grid traps were set. P.M. The 10 Mus were autopsied and processed (molt, measurements, etc.). Nov: 7:30 A.M. A total of 42 Mus (including 19 /unmarked one) was caught on the grid. 10 P.M. The grid traps were set. Nov: 8:15 A.M. a total of 42 Mus (including 20 /unmarked one) was caught on the grid. 11 P.M. The grid traps were set. Nov: 10 A.M. a total of 39 marked Mus 21 were caught in the grid traps. Nov: P.M. The grid was altered to include 23 72 traps set at a 20' x 20' spacing (except along the road that transverse the grid). P.M. The grid traps were baited with rolled oats and set.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov: The grid was altered to the following 23 arrangement. The numbers in ( ) show (cont) trap number in the grid which was set up on Oct. 31. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (34) (32) (3) (44) 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 (28) (26) (23) (48) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ROAD TO SIGNAL TOWER (2) (6) (8) (10) 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 65 64 The traps and stakes at each station are numbered. The stakes are also painted red.

R.D Kirkpatrick Mus musculus 1984 Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov: 8 AM. A total of 51 Mus (including 24 22 unmarked ones) were caught in the 72 baited grid traps. Nov: 11:30 P.M. The grid traps were 25 baited and set. Nov: 9:30 AM. A total of 49 Mus (including 26 15 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. 10:30 P.M. The grid traps were set. Nov: 8:15 AM. A total of 57 Mus (including 27 9 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. 10:00 P.M. The grid traps were set. Nov: 8:30 A.M. A total of 64 Mus (including 28 9 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. Nov: 9 A.M. A total of 60 Mus (including 29 4 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. 11 P.M. The grid traps were set.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov 9 A.M. A total of 57 Mus (including 30 5 unmarked ones) were in the grid traps. #396 had eaten the skin and flesh from the head and shoulders of # 393 which was caught in the door of trap #33. This is my first evidence of carnivorous behavior in these Mus. 10 P.M. The grid traps were set. Dec. 8 A.M. A total of 56 Mus (including 1 2 unmarked ones) were in the grid traps. 10:30 P.M. The grid traps were set. Dec. 8 A.M. A total of 58 Mus (including 2 7 unmarked ones) were in the 72 grid traps. 10:30 P.M. The grid traps were set. Dec. 8 A.M. A total of 56 Mus (including 3 4 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. 10 P.M. The grid traps were set. Dec. 8:30 A.M. A total of 63 Mus (including 4 5 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. 10:30 P.M. The grid traps were set.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec 8:30 A.M. A total of 62 Mus (including 5 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. Midnight. The grid traps were set. Dec 8:30 A.M. A total of 59 Mus (including 6 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. 10 P.M. The grid traps were set. Dec 9 A.M. A total of 55 Mus (including 7 unmarked ones) were caught on the grid. 6 P.M. 25 traps were set ESE of the tower. Dec 9 A.M. 21 Mus (RDK 452-RDK 472) 8 were in the traps. We autopsied them 5:30 P.M. We set the 25 Mus traps east of the tower. Flat skins, skulls, eyeballs and stomachs were saved. Dec 9 A.M. 20 Mus (RDK 473-RDK 492) 9 were in the traps. We autopsied them 7:30 P.M. We set the 25 traps west of the N-S road in the lepturus. on the west edge of the old island.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. 9AM. Six Mus were in the 25 10 traps. Five of them (RDK493-497) were autopsied. The sixth one was #479. She was released on the causeway east of the Signal Bldg. Dec. 6PM. 25 Mus traps were set SE of 13 the signal tower. Dec. 6PM. We placed aniline dyed bait (rolled 14 oats) in the 4 Mus cages with the 20 mice we caught last night. The four dyes used were Methylene Blue, Basic Fuchsin, Fast Green FCF, and Gentian Violet. The mice began eating it. Dec. Noon. Some colored scats had been 15 passed by the mice. Methylene Blue did not show up well. Basic Fuchsin (red) seemed to show up best. Dec. We released the remaining mice that 16 had been fed dye. Dec. 9:30AM. 5 lines of traps (a total of 17 45 traps) were baited and set in the mouse grid.

P.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Dec 17 (cont) 11:30 AM. Two mice (including an unmarked one) were trapped on the grid. 1:30 PM. & # 343 was dead in a trap, apparently from being overheated. 3:30 PM. One mouse was caught. 5:30 P.M. Two mice were caught. 7:30 P.M. 23 mice (including 2 unmarked ones) were caught in traps. 9:30 P.M. 25 mice (including 4 unmarked ones) were caught. 11:30 PM. 16 mice (including 2 unmarked ones) were caught. Dec 18 1:30 A.M. 23 mice (including 5 unmarked ones) were caught. 3:30 AM. 14 mice (including 3 unmarked ones) were caught. 5:30 AM, 22 mice (including 4 unmarked ones) were caught. 7:30 A.M. 17 mice (including 4 unmarked ones) were caught. 9:30 AM. No mice were caught. 11:30 A.M. No mice were caught. 1:30 P.M. One mouse was caught. 3:30 P.M. No mice were caught. 5:30 P.M. One mouse was caught. 7:30 P.M. 14 mice (including one unmarked one) were caught. The traps were closed.

F.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Dec. P.M. Coast Guardsmen killed a green- 18 footed mouse in the Loran Transmitter (coat) Bldg. This mouse had been released on the grid on Dec. 16. It must have moved not less than 100 yards west along the causeway to the building. Dec. The tide was very high, crossing 22. the causeway and flooding part of the north and west parts of the grid. An unknown amount of mortality occurred. Station dogs killed at least 15 mice that were flooded out of their usual haunts. The water must have killed several. Dec. 11:30 P.M. We set 5 lines of traps 27 (45) for an activity study. 1:30 P.M. One marked mouse was captured. 3:30 P.M. No mice were in the traps. 5:30 P.M. One marked mouse was captured. 7:30 P.M. Ten mice (including an unmarked one) were captured. 9:30 P.M. 22 mice (including 3 unmarked ones) were captured.

R.D Kirkpatrick Mus musculus 1964 Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec 27 11:30 PM. 24 mice (including 5 unmarked ones) were caught. (Cont) Dec 28 1:30 A.M. 14 mice (including 5 unmarked ones) were caught. 3:30 A.M. 12 mice (including an unmarked one) were caught. 5:30 A.M. 10 mice (including an unmarked one) were caught. 7:30 A.M. 2 marked mice were caught. 9:30 A.M. One marked mouse was caught 11:30 A.M. No mice were caught. 1:30 P.M. No mice were caught. 3:30 P.M. No mice were caught. 5:30 P.M. One marked mouse was caught. 7:30 P.M. Three marked mice were caught. 1965 Jan 1 9:30 A.M. The 72 grid traps had 34 mice (including 3 unmarked ones) in them. 11:30 PM. We set the grid traps. Jan 2 9:30 A.M. 29 mice (including one unmarked one) were in the grid traps. Midnight. We set the grid traps (which had been cleared in the P.M.).

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Mus musculus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Jan. 9 A.M. We found 38 Mus (including 3 unmarked ones) in the grid traps. 10:30 P.M. We set the grid traps. Jan. 4 10 A.M. We found 36 Mus (including one unmarked one) in the grid traps. 10 P.M. We set the grid traps. Jan. 5 9 A.M. We found 41 Mus (including 4 unmarked ones) in the grid traps. 10 P.M. We set the grid traps. Jan. 6 9:30 A.M. We found 39 Mus (including 8 unmarked ones) in the grid traps. 10 P.M. We set the Mus traps. Jan. 7 9:30 A.M. We found 40 Mus (including no unmarked ones) in the grid traps. Jan. 8 6:30 P.M. We set 25 Mus traps SE of the tower. Jan. 9 10 A.M. 15 mice were in the 25 traps. #704 was caught also #325 J. We released the 2 marked mice on the grid. The 13 mice (RDK # 504 then RDK # 516) were autopsied. Eyeballs, skulls,

R.P. Kirkpatrick 1965 Mus musculus Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific some stomachs and some skins were saved. (cont) 30 traps were set SE of the tower at 7PM. Jan 17 mice were in the 30 traps, #716, #704♀, 10 #741♀, #508♂ (2 and 3 hundred) were among the 17 and were released on the grid. The other 13 Mus were autopsied (RDK#517 through RDK#529). 35 traps were baited and set east of the tower at 7PM. #704♀ was caught today for the second straight day. Yesterday it was released on the grid. It had traveled from the grid back to the trap (homing evidence?). Jan. 19 mice were in the traps, #402♂, #456♂, 11 743♀, 453♂, 324♂ were among the 19. We released the 5 marked ones on the grid and autopsied the rest. 25 traps were set NE of the tower at 7PM. Jan. 6 mice were in the traps. #253♀ was one 12 of them, we released her in the grid. The other 5 (RDK#544 thru RDK#548) were autopsied.

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1965 Mus musculus Howland Island, mid-Pacific Feb. Apparently no mammals are on this 12 island. No mice were seen or found day or night and no sign was found. Baker Island, mid-Pacific Feb. Mice are abundant. They were seen 3 darting from one cover to another both 4 day and night. I caught 2 ♂♂ by hand under old boards on the 7th and made them into skins and skulls RDK 549 and 550. ♀ # 551 was made into a skin and skull. Hackman and I caught and examined but did not collect: ♀ 131-67-17-12 = 7.4gm. not pg. ♀ 140-69-17-12 = 9.1gm. not pg. ♂ 145-74-18-13; testis (scrotal) 7mm - skull RDK # 552 ♂ 150-75-17-12; " " 9mm - " " " 553 ♀ 127-66-17-12; ovary minute; not pg; " " " 554 McKean Island, Phoenix Islands, mid-Pacific Feb. No Mus or other mammals on this island. 6 Major past human activity here was 19th century guano mining. No WWII airfield or other activity, apparently.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Mus musculus Jarvis Island, Line Islands, Pacific Mar. After dark our party saw several 7 mice, many of them in Sesuvium. Mar. An adult ♀ was killed near camp. 8 She was not pg. nor lactating but had had a litter in the past. She was in good physical condition

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Phaethon lepturus Pacific Ocean south of Oahu Jan PM Six hours out of Pearl 25 Harbor, one adult flew up from the rear of the ship, circled the ship then flew north. It was squeaking as it passed over the ship.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Phaethon rubricauda Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific. Oct. 6 PM We fed the three young 19 Red-tailed Tropiebirds that are being kept on the small islet where the WWII bunker is located. These were placed there from Johnston Island where their nests were bulldozed away last week. Each of the three ate 6 to 8 5 inches-long fish Oct. The 2 smaller yg. birds were dead. 23 The larger of the 2 was collected and frozen. Oct. The remaining yg. bird apparently 26 flew away since it could not be located. Nov. Band # 615-01686 was placed on 3 an adult. Nov. 1:30 P.M. One bird was observed flying 9 over the island. Nov. The young bird on Johnston Island is 21 gone, presumably having flown away. Nov. 11 P.M. A single adult circled over the island 27 then lit. We picked it up and put on it band # 615-01822.

P.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Phaethon rubricauda Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec 10:40 A.M. Two adults were observed 1 sitting a foot apart under a 4-foot high bush (ironweed?) at the west end of the causeway just east of the barracks. They were both squawking loudly. Dec 10 A.M. Six adults circled over the island. 4 P.M. A dead, unbanded adult was found where it had fallen after hitting a guy wire. Johnston Island Dec Noon. Three adults were observed 5 flying and calling over the island. Sand Island, Johnston Atoll Dec P.M. I caught an adult on a nest 22 containing a single egg under a bush at the west end of the causeway. We banded the bird. The egg had not been there more than 3 days. 1965 10:30 A.M. Two adults were at the jar nest under the Scaevola bush (see 6 Dec. 22). We caught one and painted a green X on its breast and put green on its head. It carried band #525-12069. The other bird is also banded.

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1965 Phaethon rubricauda Johnston Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Jan Noon, Eight adults were 37 observed flying around in a group over the island.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Pluvialis dominica Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. 4:30 P.M. Three non-breeding, 22 adult Golden Plovers were caught in the mist net set up on the lawn by the tennis court. They were banded and orange streamers were attached to their legs. 10 P.M. An adult was caught in the second mist net, banded and released. North Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. 11AM to 2:30PM Five birds were 1 observed on this island. No other species were seen. Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. P.M. An adult with a broken wing 10 (guywire casualty) was collected. It was measured and frozen (USNM Field #25250). 11PM. Another adult guywire casualty was collected and frozen (USNM Field #25251). Dec. P.M. An adult guywire casualty was 13 collected and frozen (USNM Field #25252).

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1964 Puffinus pacificus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Oct. 8:45 P.M. to 10:15 P.M. Stadeland 20 I banded and placed orange streamers on 56 Wedge-tailed Shearwaters. It was difficult since the moon was bright and the birds flushed wild. Oct. The numbers of these birds using the 26 island seems to be declining either because of the continued disturbance when we band them or because they are leaving now that breeding is over and the young are leaving the nest. Nov 10 A.M. Air and burrow temperatures 2 were taken at ten active (where a chick was present) burrows and at ten inactive (empty) burrows. The chicks apparently will not remain much longer since most of the remaining ones have lost all or most of their down. Nov: Bird with band # 615-00654 had a #7 11 orange vinyl streamer attached to its right wing. It streamed back about

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Puffinus pacificus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Nov. eight inches. It was quite visible but " interfered somewhat with the bird's (cont) flight, at least initially after release. The streamer was attached on the upper wing against the birds body. Bird bearing band # 565-12759 had a # 7 vinyl streamer attached just as the preceding bird had but it only streamed about 3 inches. This made it visible longer or further away than the new leg streamer that had been attached but not as far as the 1st birds streamers. Bird with band # 565-12169 had a 6 inch long # 7 streamer attached to its right wing near the body. This seems to be the right length for good visibility. The streamer was still visible even after the bird was too far away for positive identification. Bird with band # 615-00394 had a # 7 streamer attached to the right wing out just before the start of the primaries. This did not seem to interfere with the birds flight and made the 6 inch long streamer visible for a maximum distance.

RD Kirkpatrick 1964 Puffinus pacificus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll Pacific Nov. 10 P.M. I counted 179 birds 15 including young. The four wing banded birds were not seen. Nov. 9 A.M. The Coast Guard station dog 16 killed 5 young Wedge Tails. We processed and froze 4 of them. Nov. 10 P.M. Four adults were caught and 17 put in cages for wing-tagging study. Nov. 9 A.M. a banded adult had a 3" square 18 of orange nylon with the #1 on it affixed to its right wing with a metal band. The tag did not hinder the bird's flight and also did not show up on the flying bird. An adult (band #535-12648) had a streamer ½" wide by 8" long with #2 painted on it affixed to the right wing by a metal band. A blood vessel was hit when the hole was made for the band and the bird bled profusely. The streamer seemed to be wider than necessary and flapped overmuchly. The bird lit on the water after flying 100 yards.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Puffinus pacificus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov. An adult (band # 615-01395) had a 12 1" x 8" streamer attached to its right wing (cont.) with a metal band. "3" was painted on the orange nylon streamer. It showed up very well as long as the bird was in sight and didn't seem to interfere with its flight. An adult (band # 535-13632) had a 2" diameter circle of orange nylon with a "4" painted on it, affixed to its right wing with a metal band. As the bird flew, the nylon rolled up and was not nearly as visible as a streamer would have been. Nov. An adult (band # 565-12317) had a 19 1" x 12" orange streamer with a "5" painted on it placed around its right wing with- out a metal band. It flew well and the streamer was very visible although it was somewhat longer than necessary. An adult (band # 565-12383) had a 1" x 10" orange streamer with a "6" painted on it placed around its right wing with- out a metal band. This seems to be an ideal sized streamer.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1984 Puffinus pacificus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov. An adult (band #565-12399) had a 19 6"x1" orange streamer with "7" painted on (cont) it attached to its right wing with a metal band. A blood vessel was hit when the slit was made for the band but it did not bleed too freely. An adult (band #565-12174) had the same size streamer (with an "8" on it) attached in the same manner. The streamers were quite visible, but both of them went forward and hung beneath the wing. 10 P.M. Four adults were caught and placed in a cage for wing-tagging. Two dead young were found at the mouth of their burrow where the C.H. Dog had killed them. One was unbanded, the other bore band #535-13957. Nov. 9:15 A.M. Adult with band #565-12107 20 and an unbanded adult each had a plain orange nylon streamer 1"x10" put on its right wing. After passing around the wing, the streamer extended about 7" back. Two adults (bands 615-00371 and 565-12176) had plain orange streamers 1"x6" affixed to their right wings by metal bands. The last one bled freely.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1984 Puffinus pacificus Nov 19 Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific (cont) An adult (band #565-12399) had a 6"X1" orange streamer with "7" painted on it attached to its right wing with a metal band. A blood vessel was hit when the slit was made for the band but it did not bleed too freely. An adult (band #565-12174) had the same size streamer (with an "8" on it) attached in the same manner. The streamers were quite visible, but both of them went forward and hung beneath the wing. 10 P.M. Four adults were caught and placed in a cage for wing-tagging. Two dead young were found at the mouth of their burrows where the C.H. Dog had killed them. One was unbanded, the other bore band #535-13957. Nov 20 9:15 A.M. Adult with band #565-12107 and an unbanded adult each had a plain orange nylon streamer 1"X10" put on its right wing. After passing around the wing, the streamer extended about 7" back. Two adults (bands 615-00371 and 565-12176) had plain orange streamers 1"X6" affixed to their right wings by metal bands. The last one bled freely.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Puffinus pacificus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov 10:30 A.M. Two adults (bands 615- 21 00318 and 615-01687) had 1"x10" orangestreamers (#'s 9 and 10, respectively) affixed to their right wings. They flew well and the jes' were quite visible. An unbanded adult and adult band # 535-13790 had 6"x1" orange streamers (#'s 11 and 12 respectively) affixed to their right wings with "Zip" Wing Bands # 895, Size 3 (National Band and Tag Co.) in the manner described by Hester (Bird-Banding, 1963). No. 11 bled some and No. 12 bled freely. The tags were quite visible. Nov 11 A.M. Adult (band # 615-00264) 22. had a 10"x1" jes (#16) attached to its right wing. Adults (bands 565- 27779, 615-01685, 615-00314) had 9"x1" jes' (#'s 15, 14, 13 respectively) attached to their wings. The 9" long jes' seem long enough. 7:0 P.M. I unsuccessfully looked for wing-tagged birds.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Puffinus pacificus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov. 24 11 P.M. No wing-tagged birds were found. We banded 78 young that were at the mouth of their burrows. A total of 30 adults were counted. Nov. 26 11 P.M. Adult with wing tag #8 was observed. The metal wing tag did not bother the bird. Nov. 30 8:30 A.M. A young, unharmed bird was found at the front entrance of the barracks. It was banded with #615-01831 and released in a burrow near the Mus grid. Dec. 1 8:30 A.M. Young bird, band #535-13954, was killed by the station dog. Dec. 3 10:15 P.M. Adult, band #565-12174, which had a wing tag and streamer attached on Nov. 19, 1964, was caught and examined. The streamer was lost but the metal wing-tag was intact. The wound was healed. Dec. 10 11 P.M. Only 3 birds (1 ad, 2 ygg.) were found on the island.

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1965 Puffinus nativitatus Jan 7.P.M. Phil Lehner and I observed 10 a banded adult Christmas Island Shearwater circling low over the east end of the island near the area where this species nested in 1964. The bird was uniformly dark and was somewhat smaller than a Wedge-tail Shearwater. Its shape in flight was reminiscent of a Chimney Swift. It flew within 12 feet of us. Jan Binion Amerson found 2 banded 13 adults in a nest cavity under a concrete slab on the east beach. No eggs are present.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Rattus rattus Oct. Johnston Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific 28 A male rat was caught in a live- trap baited with rolled oats and set on a pier Navy Pier under packing crates. This is the same area where Lt. (j.g.) Richard Fleming, U.S.N.R., collected a rat on 3 September 1964. The Sept. rat was a ♀, T.L. 231 mm, T 131 mm, Ear 16 mm. Today's rat was made into skin and skull RDK #3958. Ectoparasites were collected Nov. John Makilan, a Hawaiian who 5 is working for Holmes and Narver, Inc. as an exterminator, gave me two rats which he had caught in snap traps. I made them into RDK #397 and 398. #398 was apparently partly rotting since the skin tore and was very difficult to make up. The skull of the latter specimen was not saved since it was very badly crushed by the traps. No external parasites were found on either skin. Dec. John Makilan gave me two rats he had 24 caught in snap traps. One was melanic (RDK #502).

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Rattus exulans Bikini Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Feb. Polynesian rats were very abundant 10 here in Oct, 1964, according to Doug Hack- man. Now they are somewhat reduced in numbers but are still often seen especially at night. They stay in shallow burrows that they dig under rocks and under the lushy Portulaca plants. Two adult males, RDK #557 and 558 were made into study skins. Feb. 4 AM, Seventeen rats were collected 11 by catching them by hand. They were found to be as follows: (1) ♀ 287-146-28-18=73.6 gm not pg. (2) ♂ 269-136-28-17=75.1 gm (3) ♀ 294-142-28-18=76.2 gm. not pg. (4) ♂ 284-146-28-18=74.1 gm not pg. (5) ♀ 271-135-27-17=70.4 gm. not pg. (6) ♀ 287-143-28-19=75.2 gm (7) ♂ 275-142-28-18=72.5 gm (8) ♂ 270-127-28-17=70.8 gm. (9) ♀ 276-140-28-17=71.4 gm. not pg. (10) ♀ 255-125-27-17=60.7 gm not pg. (11) ♀ 264-136-28-17=74.8 gm not pg. (12) ♀ 276-146-29-17=69 gm not pg.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Rattus exulans Birnie Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Feb. (13) ♂ 283-148-28-18=79.8 gm. 11 (14) ♀ 276-140-30-18=73.4gm not pg. (cont) (15) ♀ 271-140-28-18=68.9gm not pg (16) ♀ 261-138-28-18=63.3gm not pg. (17) ♀ 265-134-28-17=68.5gm not pg. AM, a hermit crab crawled in the tent and ate the head off skin RDK#558. Fakafo Atoll Tokalau Islands Feb. The natives use cats and dogs to 27 kill rats in their village and copra plantations since these rats eat many of the coconuts. 9PM. No rats had been caught although 25 Museum Specials had been set out during the night of Feb. 26th and during the day of the 27th. A disturbance was heard under the debris beneath several coconut trees. Two rats were observed fighting at a shallow hole in the ground. Our move- ment frightened them but our light did not. We set 2 traps baited with coconut meat near the hole. We stood still, but left our light on. Three rats came to the hole. One of them went into

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Rattus exulans Fakaofu Atoll, Tokalau Islands Feb: the hole and appeared to gnaw on a live 27 root. It smelted the trap bait, apparently, (cont.) and was caught in a trap (it is now RD# 5618). Within 5 minutes RD# 5629 was also caught. A 3rd rat was captured in both traps but escaped. The Museum specials are too small to catch and hold Polynesian rats. The 2 collected had their skulls crushed because the traps were too small (i.e. short). Feb: No additional rats were found in 28 the traps and only 13 of the 25 traps were found. They had not been tied down and the rats and coconut crabs apparently carried them off. This atoll seems to have a fairly high rat population. Our native guides reported that they had not seen them swimming from island to island (often less than 30 yds.) but they have noted that the population fluctuates from island to island and from time to time on the same island.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1865 Rattus exulans Nakumono Atoll, Tokalau Islands Feb 26 This rat is present on this atoll according to the missionaries and natives. Natives have observed number of rats swimming from one island to another at certain times, according to the missionaries. They also report that the numbers of rats on any given island will fluctuate greatly from one time to another. After dark I unsuccessfully hunted rats with a pistol. None were seen or heard. 5 snap traps baited with coconut meat, were set. Mar 1 No rats were in the traps. A high percentage of the coconut trees have been protected from the rats by affixing a 1' wide strip of aluminum about 5' or 6' from the ground. Traps were baited with burnt coconut meat and were set beside 3' deep piles of coconut husks. No rats were trapped. RDH #563 and #564 were shot as they moved over a pile of coconut husks. They were apparently attracted by Apollo and I sitting by the husks talking. He says that they often come to groups of natives,

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1925 Rattus exulans Mar Nukunonu Atoll Tokelau Islands 1 probably to forage for the food items left discarded by the natives. The Polynesian rat population appears to be greater on this atoll (at least on the islands inspected) than it is on Fakaofo. RDK #563 was a male and appeared to be very old. Its pelage was in poor condition and very little body fat was present. RDK #564 was a lactating female. Only two inguinal mammas were well developed. We (the native and I) inspected several Pandanus stumps and trunks. No fresh rat nests were found although old sign was seen. The native reported that he sometimes found rat nests in these locations. Atafu Atoll, Tokelau Islands Mar P.M. We (a native boy and I) set out 3 12 snap traps, baited with burnt coconut meat on Fenualopa Island. I shot an adult ♀ with a pistol. Her skull was ruined. She was T.141-HF30-E17. She was not pg. nor lactating.

P.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Rattus exulans Atafer Atoll, Tokelau Islands Mar Another adult ♀, killed in camp by the 3 natives, was lactating. Four inguinal (co) mammae were present and distended. She was not weighed or measured since her tail was missing and the ants had gotten to her. After dark, two adults (RDK# 566 and 567) were collected in the edge of camp with a .22 pistol. # 567 was ♂. Both rats were very fat. Many rats could have been collected on the small island where we camped. The natives say that they do not eat rats. Mar No rats were in the 12 snap traps 4 which had been baited with burnt coconut meat and set on the 3rd, even though rats were abundant in the area where the traps were set. Christmas Atoll, Line Islands Mar Several rats were observed on islands 13 which support coconut palms. Rats were not seen on other islands.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Rattus exulans Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands Mar. This heavily vegetated atoll 16 supports many coconut palms and many Polynesian rats.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Sternus fuscatus Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. Noon. An adult, band # 753-92350 14 and an orange streamer, was picked up. It had injured itself on a guywire but could still fly. Dec. Three unbanded adults with wings 5 broken from flying into guywires were found and killed. Dec. One unbanded adult was found 6 (and killed) after it hit a guywire. Dec An adult, band # 753-95229, was 7 killed after it was found with a broken wing. Its blood, 6 cc., was taken. Dec. A.M. A broken-winged adult was 10 found near the barracks. Blood was taken from it. Dec. AM Two broken-winged adult Sooty 19 Terns had their blood taken. One was band # 753-96578. Dec. A.M. Three broken-winged adults 20 were found and their blood was taken. One carried band # 753-30941.

F.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Sterna fuscata Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec P.M. Three adults that had broken a 21 wing on Loran tower guywires had their blood taken. One carried band # 753-72084. An unbanded adult was frozen as a specimen 1965 Pacific Ocean south of Oahu Jan PM. A flock of 7 were observed 25 flying NW rather low (6 to 15 feet up). A single bird was later observed flying in the same direction.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Stemo fuscaia Cinderby Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Feb. 5:30 to 9PM. Sooty teras were banded 13 by all six of us working in a nesting colony just north of the guano pile on the west side of the island. The colony contained many eggs, many hatching eggs and young up to the age ½ grown. Hermit crabs are very abundant in and around the tern colony. Many of the crabs stay, during the day, in burrows in the guano pile. While we were in the colony I observed 2 crabs eating the contents of an egg, 1 crab " " " " " " , and 1 to 3 crabs at various locations eating living or freshly killed (by the crabs) chicks. Our disturbance of the colony may (or may not) have caused the adults to leave the eggs and chicks unprotected while the crabs preyed on them. Feb. 5PM to 6PM. Five of us netted and banded 16 birds in the two colonies SE of the house (as we had done the evening of Feb. 15). The birds were very jumpy and difficult to net. Continued disturbance

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Sterna fusca Fulmerburg Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Feb 16 seems to cause them to flush more (cont.) readily and then stay away from their nests longer. Eggs and very small young are in these 2 colonies. The disturbance in the colonies caused the young to crawl under the prostrate, fleshy- stemmed Portulaca. Netted adults regurgitated rather fresh (and small) fish - up to 3" long. This indicates that the adults feed just prior to dusk. Palmyra Atoll Line Islands Mar 16 A nesting colony of 500,000 to one million birds is located on the abandoned WWII landing strip. This runway is in an area that had been forested and unsuited to Sooty Terns so this is a relatively new colony. The birds are still laying although some of the eggs have recently hatched.

R.D. Kirkpatrick Sterna lunata 1964 Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov Midnight. Ninteen Gray-backed 18 Terns were counted on the old pier near the islet. They were with Common Noddy Terns and were calling. Nov Midnight. Dennis caught an adult 28 on the old pier. We placed it in the cage on the Mus grid. Nov The adult caught last night was 29 banded with # 642-0117/ and released. Dec 8:30 AM. Not less than six adults 10 were observed with a flock of Common Noddies flying around near the old pier. 11 PM. An estimated 35 birds were on the old pier. 1965 Several eggs were found on the Jan islet just north of the old gun mount. 13 They are relatively large and are speckled blending into the background. Eggs are laid on the bare coral, no nesting material being used.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Sterna lunata Canton Island, Phoenix Islands, South Pacific Feb 17 A nesting colony of 3000+ Grey- backed Terns was found along the road approx. 5 miles from the landing on the American side. Eggs were just hatching and none of the young appeared to be more than 2 or 3 days old. It was noted, while we were netting (by means of long-handled landing nets) and banding them, that about 2% of the birds were Sooty Terns. No nesting Sootys or Sootys on the ground, were noted. Gilberteese natives live on the island and they apparently harvest the birds for food. A native bird- killing tool was found in the nesting colony. The tool consisted of a stick 3½'-4' long with 2 strands of nylon fishing leader affixed to one end. The distal ends of the leaders were tied to a single cylindrical stone 3½" long and 1" in diameter. This tool should be very efficient in knocking down the low-flying birds.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Sula leucogaster Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Jan 4 11 P.M. An immature Brown Booby was found on the north beach with a broken wing (from hitting a guywire). We killed it. Pacific Ocean Jan 25 AM Several adults were observed flying about and sitting on buoys as we cleared Pearl Harbor.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Fakafo, Tokelan Islands Feb 26 I noticed a domestic hog in the village that weighed 45 lbs. It was very poor type, but may have been a typical Polynesian pig since it was much like pigs observed on Tutuila Samoa. Feb 27 Our native guides informed me that many hogs are "kept" (they run loose) by the villagers for eating. They are fed fish bones and coconut meat but probably forage for most of their food. The pigs do not attack the village children. Nukunono Atoll, Tokelan Islands Feb 28 15 to 20 pigs (up to 25lb.) were observed in the village. They seem to be of superior stock than those seen on Tutuila, Samoa and on Fakafo. Some were marked and shaped like Duroc and others looked like Atafu Atoll, Tokelan Islands Mar 3 Many domestic hogs are kept on an island adjacent to the village island. The villagers use the hogs as food.

CATALOGUE P.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Oct. 22 388 ♂ Mus musculus 147-77-18-12=10.2gm. testis 4X6 mm skull, skin, eyeballs saved USNM Field #25280 Oct. 23 389 ♂ Mus musculus 130-72-18-10=7.1gm. testis 4X5.5mm skull, skin, eyeballs saved USNM Field #25281 24 390 ♀ Mus musculus 122-63-17-11=6.8gm. ovary minute; skull, skin, eyeballs saved USNM Field #25278 391 ♂ Mus musculus 120-59-17-11=6.4gm. testis 4X7mm; skull, skin, eyeballs saved USNM Field #25283 26 392 ♂ Mus musculus 125-57-13-12=10.5gm tip of tail missing; testis internal 4X5mm skull, skin, eyeballs saved USNM Field #25277 27 393 ♀ Mus musculus 145-76-16-11=10.7gm. 10 mammas (6 pectoral, 4 inguinal); not lactating; skull, skin, eyeballs saved USNM Field #25284 394 ♂ Mus musculus 163-87-19-11=14.9gm. testis 4X5mm; skull, skin, eyeballs saved USNM Field #25279 Johnston Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific 28 395 ♂ Rattus ♀ 195-107-29-16=22.4gm. testis 3.5X5mm; skin, skin, ectoparasites saved collected by Lt.(jg) Richard Fleming, USNR USNM Field #25276

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Nov. 396♂ Mus musculus 167-87-20-12=15.4gm. 1 testis 5x8 mm. in scrotum skin, skull, eyeballs saved USNM Field # 25282 Johnston Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Nov. 397♀ Rattus 318-182-34-20=78.5gm. 5 skin, skull saved USNM Field # 25285 398♂ Rattus 289-157-34-20=54.5gm. skin only; testis 9x17 mm in scrotum USNM Field # 25286 Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Atoll Nov. 399♀ Mus musculus 165-89-18-12=12.6gm. 16 USNM Field # 25152; preserved on skin, skull, eyeballs saved; no molt; many ectoparasite (preserved); vulva non-perforate; no corpora lutea or embryos; testis evident 400♂ Mus musculus 129-68-16-10=7.3gm. USNM Field # 25153; skull and flat skin and eyeballs saved; ectoparasites preserved testis 4mm. 401♀ Mus musculus 164-89-19-12=12.7gm. USNM Field # 25154; skull, flat skin and eyeballs saved; vulva perforate; very few ectoparasites 402♂ Mus musculus 133-69-16-11=8gm. USNM Field # 25155; skull and eyeballs saved; testis 4mm.; no molt; moderate number of ectoparasites.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov. 412 ♀ Mus musculus 155-79-18-12=13.8gm. 16 USNM Field #25165; flat skin, skull and (cont.) eyeballs saved 413 ♀ Mus musculus 171-60-16-11=6.5gm USNM Field #25166; flat skin, skull and eyeballs saved; immature 414 ♂ Mus musculus 134-75-18-11=6.7gm USNM Field #25167; flat skin, skull and eyeballs saved; testes (abdominal) - 2mm. 415 ♂ Mus musculus 129-67-16-10=6.5gm USNM Field #25168; skull and eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal) - 4mm. 416 ♂ Mus musculus 150-80-17-12=11.9gm USNM Field #25169; flat skin and skull and eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal) - 6mm. 417 ♀ Mus musculus 150-78-17-12=9.3gm. USNM Field #25170; flat skin, skull and eyeballs saved; immature 418 ♂ Mus musculus 140-76-17-12=8.4gm USNM Field #25171; skull and eyeballs saved; testes (abdominal) - 2mm. 419 ♀ Mus musculus 131-72-17-11=6.9gm USNM Field #25172; skull and eyeballs saved; immature Nov. 420 ♂ Mus musculus 131-67-16-9=6.4gm 17 USNM Field #25173; flat skin, skull and eyeballs saved; testes (abdominal) - 2mm.

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov: 421♀ Mus musculus 173-90-18-13=13.5gm 17 USNM Field #25174; flat skin, skull and (cont) eyeballs saved; 6 (7mm, 7ml) embryo scars 422♂ Mus musculus 165-92-18-13=13.4gm USNM Field #25175; flat skin, skull and eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal)-6mm. 423♀ Mus musculus 124-71-17-11=6gm USNM Field#25176; skull and eyeballs saved 424♂ Mus musculus 148-73-16-12=9.9gm USNM Field #25177; skull and eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal)-5mm. 425♂ Mus musculus 165-91-18-13=14.4gm USNM Field #25178; flat skin, skull and eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal)-7mm. 426♂ Mus musculus 138-76-17-11=6.4gm. USNM Field #25179; skull and eyeballs saved testes (scrotal)-2mm; immature 427♂ Mus musculus 155-85-17-12=9.9gm. USNM Field#25180; skull and eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal)-4mm 428♂ Mus musculus 135-73-17-11=7.3gm USNM Field #25181; skull and eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal) - 4mm 429♀ Mus musculus 150-76-16-12=10.5gm. USNM Field#25182; flat skin, skull and eyeballs saved; 4 (4ml, 0mm) embryo scars

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean No. 430♀ Mus musculus 151-82-17-12=10 gm. 17 USNM Field #25183; flat skin, skull (cont) and eyeballs saved; no embryo scars 431♂ Mus musculus 160-84-17-12=10 gm USNM Field #25184; skull and eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal) - 4 mm. 432♂ Mus musculus 164-83-18-12 = 14.8 gm. USNM Field #25185; flat skin, skull, eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal) - 9X5 mm. 433♀ Mus musculus 175-93-19-14=15.9 gm USNM Field #25186; flat skin, skull, eyeballs saved; no embryo scars 434♂ Mus musculus 157-81-17-14=12 gm USNM Field #25187; flat skin, skull, eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal) - 3X5 mm 435♂ Mus musculus 136-75-17-12 = 7.6 gm USNM Field #25188; flat skin, skull, eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal) - 2X1.5 mm 436♂ Mus musculus 163-88-18-13=12.2 gm USNM Field #25189; skull and eye- balls saved; testes (scrotal) - 7X4 mm. 437♀ Mus musculus 170-91-18-14=14 gm USNM Field #25190; skull and eyeballs saved; 10 (6 on L, 4 on R) embryo scars 438♂ Mus musculus 163-85-17-13=16.5gm. USNM Field #25191; flat skin, skull, eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal) - 8X4 mm.

P.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Nov 439 ♀ Mus musculus 162-86-17-13=12.9gm. 17 USNM Field #25192; flat skin, skull, (cont) eyeballs saved; 15(11 and 4) embryo scars 440 ♀ Mus musculus 149-81-18-13=9.4gm. USNM Field #25193; skull, eyeballs saved; immature; no embryo scars Nov 441 ♀ Mus musculus 162-83-18-12=15.4gm. 18 USNM Field #25194; flat skin, skull, eyeballs saved; 17(10 on L, 7 on R) embryo scars 442 ♂ Mus musculus 147-82-18-11=9.0 gm USNM Field #25195; flat skin, skull, eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal)-3X8mm. 443 ♀ Mus musculus 151-80-18-12=11.3gm. USNM Field #25196; skull, eyeballs saved; no embryo scars 444 ♂ Mus musculus 150-81-18-13=9.9gm. USNM Field #25197; skull, eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal)-3X7mm. 445 ♀ Mus musculus 136-71-17-11=7.8gm USNM Field #25198; skull, eyeballs saved; no embryo scars 446 ♂ Mus musculus 150-84-16-12=9.8gm USNM Field #25199; skull, eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal)-3X5mm. 447 ♂ Mus musculus 172-90-19-12=13.9gm USNM Field #25200; flat skin, skull, eyeballs saved; testes (scrotal)-6X4mm.

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Nov. 448♂ Mus musculus 173-100-20-13=15.5gm. 18 USNM Field #25201; skull, eyeballs (cont) saved; testes (serotal) - 4x8 mm. 449♀ Mus musculus 155-78-17-13=13.4gm. USNM Field #25202; skull, eyeballs saved; 15(7onL, 8onR) embryo scars 450♀ Mus musculus 140-74-16-12=9.1gm. USNM Field #25203; skull, eyeballs saved; no embryo scars Johnston Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Ocean Nov. 451♂ Rattus 395-204-39-23=189.5gm. 17 testes 40x7mm - serotal; skin, skull saved USNM Field #25287 Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Dec. 452♂ Mus musculus 150-80-18-13=16.3gm. 8 USNM Field #25204; skull, eyeballs, stomach and flat skin saved; molt across shoulders and on belly; testes (serotal) 7x4mm - no cauda epididymis tubules 453♂ Mus musculus 173-95-20-13=15.9gm. USNM Field #25205; skull, eyeballs, flat skin saved; molt on shoulder and small of back; testes (abdominal) - 6x4mm - no cauda epididymis tubules

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll Pacific Dec 454 ♂ Mus musculus 134-74-17-12=10.4gm. 8 USNM Field #25206; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, (cont) stomach saved; testis (abdominal) 4X3 mm, no cauda epididymus tubules; molt across back and top of hips. 455 ♀ Mus musculus 152-81-17-12=12.8 gm USNM Field #25207; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on head, shoulders, one hip; ovary 3X1½ mm. 456 ♂ Mus musculus 138-73-18-10=9.5 gm. USNM Field #25208; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; testis (abdominal) 5X3 mm; no cauda epididymus tubules 457 ♂ Mus musculus 142-78-16-11=12.1 gm. USNM Field #25209; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on head and one hips; testis (abdom.) 6X4 mm, no e. e. tubules 458 ♀ Mus musculus 164-89-17-12=14.4 gm. USNM Field #25210; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; ovary 1X1 mm. 459 ♀ Mus musculus 128-67-17-10=7.9 gm. USNM Field #25211; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on belly, cheeks, and between eyes and on rump; ovary minute

P.D Kirkpatrick 1924 Catalogue Sand Island Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Dec. 460 ♀ Mus musculus 130-70-16-11 = 8.0 gm. ♂ USNM Field # 25212; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, (cont.) stomach saved; molt on neck and back; ovary minute 461 ♀ Mus musculus 131-65-16-11 = 8.0 gm. USNM Field # 25213; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on belly; ovary minute. 462 ♂ Mus musculus 127-68-17-10 = 7.8 gm. USNM Field # 25214; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on all except belly; testis (abdominal) - 4X2, no s. e. tubules 463 ♂ Mus musculus 146-79-17-11 = 11.8 gm. USNM Field # 25215; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on all except rump; testis (abdominal) 9X6 mm, no s. e. tubules 464 ♂ Mus musculus 128-69-16-11 = 8.3 gm. USNM Field # 25216; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt between eyes; testis (abdominal) - 3X4 mm., no s. e. tubules 465 ♂ Mus musculus 130-71-16-11 = 8.4 gm. USNM Field # 25217; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on hind quarters; testis (scrotal) - 5X3 mm, no s. e. tubules 466 ♀ Mus musculus 125-68-16-11 = 7.2 gm. USNM Field # 25218; skull, eyeballs, flat skin saved; molt on lower back and hips; ovary minute

P.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Dec. 467♀ Mus musculus 138-71-17-11=9.0 gm. ♂ USNM Field #25219; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, (cont) stomach saved; molt on shoulders and hips; ovary minute. 468♀ Mus musculus 140-75-17-11=7.5 gm. USNM Field #25220; skull, eyeballs, flat skin saved; no molt; ovary minute. 469♂ Mus musculus 147-77-17-12=12.9 gm. USNM Field #25221; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on head, back of shoulders, around legs; testis (scrotal)- 9x5mm., c. c. tubules present 470♂ Mus musculus 144-76-17-11=9.7gm. USNM Field #25222; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; testis (scrotal)-6x4mm., c. c. tubules present 471♀ Mus musculus 157-85-17-12=14.5gm. USNM Field #25223; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on anterior back and head; ovary 4mm. 472♀ Mus musculus 161-84-19-12=15.2gm. had 4yy in trap, ate 1, other 3 weighed total of 2.9gm and measured 25mm crown-rump; USNM Field #25224; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; ovary 4mm.

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Dec. 473 ♀ Mus musculus 136-75-18-12 = 9.2gm. 9 USNM Field # 25225; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt between eyes; ovary 2 mm. 474 ♀ Mus musculus 147-76-18-13 = 10.7gm. USNM Field # 25226; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on sides and hind legs; ovary minute 475 ♀ Mus musculus 153-79-18-12 = 12.2gm. USNM Field # 25227; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on head and left shoulder; ovary minute. 476 ♂ Mus musculus 149-80-18-12 = 11.1gm. USNM Field # 25228; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on head; testes (scrotal) - 7x5 mm, ♂ ♂ tubules present 477 ♂ Mus musculus 143-75-17-12 = 12.0gm. USNM Field # 25229; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; testis (scrotal) - 8x6 mm, ♂ ♂ tubules present 478 ♀ Mus musculus 111-59-16-11 = 4.7gm. USNM Field # 25230; skull, eyeballs, flat skin saved; no molt; ovary minute 479 ♂ Mus musculus 150-82-16-12 = 11.1gm. USNM Field # 25231; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on side forward of left hip; testis (abdominal) - 6x4 mm, ♂ ♂ tubules present

R.D Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Dec 480 ♂ Mus musculus 163-88-19-12 = 12.9 gm. 9 USNM Field # 25232; skull, eyeballs, flat (cont) skin, stomach saved; molt on right shoulder; testis (abdominal) - 5 x 4 mm., no ♂, ♀ tubules 481 ♂ Mus musculus 153-82-17-12 = 12.5 gm. USNM Field # 25233; skull, eyeballs, flat skin saved; no molt; testis (scrotal) - 7 x 5 mm., ♂, ♀ tubules present 482 ♀ Mus musculus no measurements; 8.4 gm. USNM Field # 25234; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt across face, posterior back and hind quarters; ovary minute 483 ♀ Mus musculus 151-77-18-12 = 10.5 gm. USNM Field # 25235; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on posterior part of body; ovary 3 x 2 mm. 484 ♂ Mus musculus 142-79-17-11 = 7.7 gm. USNM Field # 25236; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; testis (abdominal) - 4 x 2 mm., no ♂, ♀ tubules 485 ♂ Mus musculus 154-83-18-12 = 11.3 gm. USNM Field # 25237; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on tail and head; testis (abdominal) - 4 x 3 mm., ♂, ♀ tubules present 486 ♂ Mus musculus 153-87-18-11 = 9.5 gm. USNM Field # 25238; skull, eyeballs, flat skin saved; no molt; testis (abdominal) 5 x 3 mm., no ♂, ♀ tubules present

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Land Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. 487♂ Mus musculus 157-82-18-12=14.1gm. 9 USNM Field #25239; skull, eyeballs, flat (cont) skin saved; molt on hind quarters; ovary-3 mm. 488♀ Mus musculus 164-88-18-12=13.5gm. USNM Field #25240; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; ovary 4mm. 489♂ Mus musculus 165-89-19-13=14.9 gm. USNM Field #25241; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on posterior body; testis (scrotal)-5x7mm., c.c. tubules present 490♀ Mus musculus 131-70-17-12=7.1 gm. USNM Field #25242; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; molt on dorsal portion of posterior body; ovary 2 mm. 491♂ Mus musculus 137-75-18-12=8.9 gm. USNM Field #25243; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; testis (abdominal) 5x4 mm, no c.c. tubules present 492♀ Mus musculus 124-68-17-10=5.6 gm. USNM Field #25244; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; ovary minute Dec. 493♂ Mus musculus 152-87-13-14=12.9 gm. 10 USNM Field #25245; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; testis (abdominal)-4x7mm., c.c. tubules present

F.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Dec 494 ♀ Mus musculus 146-76-17-12=11.2 gm. 10 USNM Field #25246; skull, eyeballs, flat (cont.) skin, stomach saved; no molt; ovary 2x2mm 3 minute embryos in right horn, 1 in left. 495 ♀ Mus musculus 151-79-18-12=10.2 gm. USNM Field #25247; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; no molt; ovary 3x1mm. 496 ♂ Mus musculus 142-79-18-13=12.2 gm. USNM Field #25248; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; testis (abdominal) 6 mm, no s. s. tubules present 497 ♂ Mus musculus 147-77-17-12=12.7 gm. USNM Field #25249; skull, eyeballs, flat skin, stomach saved; testis (scrotal) 7 mm, no s. s. tubules present Johnston Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Dec. 498 ♀ Mus musculus 140-71-16-12=12.2 gm. 23 USNM Field #25288; ovary 4 mm.; 5 embryos 11 mm crown-rump 499 ♀ Mus musculus 155-81-18-12=16.5 gm USNM Field #25289; 6 embryos, 15 mm crown- rump; ovary 4 mm. 500 ♀ Mus musculus 141-69-15-12=11.7 gm. USNM Field #25290; ovary 4 mm. Lactated recently

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1964 Catalogue Johnston Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean Nov. 17 501♂ Rattus 264-151-34-21=42.1gm. USNM Field #25291; testis 15x7mm (serotol) shull only Dec. 502♀ Rattus 34½-180-38-22=114.9g 24 USNM #25260; melanistic; not pregnant Dec. 503♀ Rattus 347-189-37-21=109.5g. 24 USNM #25261; not pregnant skinned by P. Lehner 1965 Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Jan. 504♂ Mus musculus 153-82-19-13=13.4gm. 9 USNM Field #25262; no molt (skin not saved) testis 9mm serotol; no e. l. tubules; skull, stomach, eyeballs saved 505♂ Mus musculus 157-86-20-12=11.4gm. USNM Field #25263; molt across middle of dorsal; testis (serotal)-7mm.; no e. l. tubules; skull, stomach, eyeballs saved 506♂ Mus musculus lob-tailed HF 17; E12=12.7gm USNM Field #25264; no molt; testis (abdom.) 7mm.; no e. l. tubules

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1965 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Jan. 507♂ Mus musculus 124-67-17-11-6.8gm 9 USNM Field #25265; molt on rump; testis (abdon.) (cont) 6mm.; no c.z. tubules; stomach not saved (full of bait); skull, skin, eyeballs saved 508♀ Mus musculus 151-78-18-13=16.4gm. USNM Field #25266; molt on hips; 3 fetuses 20 mm crown-rump; stomach empty (not saved); skull, eyeballs, skin saved $509♀ Mus musculus 152-80-18-13=12.8gm. USNM Field #25267; molt on sides; ovary 3mm; skin, skull, eyeballs, stomach saved 510♀ Mus musculus 148-77-17-13=12.4gm. USNM Field #25268; molt across back; ovary 3mm; skin, skull, eyeballs, stomach saved 511♀ Mus musculus 148-79-17-12=13.8gm USNM Field #25269; molt on right side; 6 fetuses (2on R, 4on L) 12mm crown rump; stomach empty (not saved); skull, eyeballs, skin saved

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Catalogue Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Jan 512 ♂ Mus musculus 137-72-18-13=13.9gm. 9 USNM Field #25270; molt on head; testis (lent) (abdominal) 8mm; no e. e. tubules; stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs, skin saved 155-82-19-13=13.7gm. 513 ♂ Mus musculus 150-81-19-13=13.9gm. USNM Field #25271; molt on shoulders and back; testis (abdominal) 6mm; no e. e. tubules; skull, skin, eyeballs saved 140-71-17-12=12.2gm. 514 ♂ Mus musculus 139-82-19-13=13.7gm. USNM Field #25272; molt on head; testis (abdominal) 7mm; no e. e. tubules; stomach not saved; skull, skin, eyeballs saved 515 ♀ Mus musculus 137-72-18-12=9.8gm. USNM Field #25273; molt on belly and one shoulder; ovary minute; stomach not saved; skull, skin, eyeballs saved 516 ♀ Mus musculus 127-70-13-12=7.8gm. USNM Field #25274; molt around tail; ovary minute; stomach not saved; skull, skin, eyeballs saved Jan. 517 ♂ Mus musculus 151-79-19-12=12.2gm. 10 USNM Field #25275; molt on back of head; testis (abdominal) 8mm; no e. e. tubules; stomach, eyeballs, skull saved

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Catalog Sand Island Johnston Atoll Pacific Jan 518♂ Mus musculus 153-78-20-12=13.8gm. 10 USNM Field#25292;nomolt, skin discarded; (cont.) testis(abdominal)7mm; c.c. tubules present; stomach, eyeballs, skull saved 519♂ Mus musculus 144-78-18-13=11.2gm. USNM Field#25293;molt on shoulders and hips; testis(abdominal)11mm; no c.c. tubules; skull, eyeballs, stomach saved tip of tail missing 520♂ Mus musculus HF 79; E13=13.8gm USNM Field#25294; nomolt, skin discarded testis(serotal)9mm; c.c. tubules present; stomach empty, not saved; eyeballs, skull saved 521♀ Mus musculus 148-75-18-13=12.3gm. USNM Field#25295; molt above hind hips; testis(abdominal) ovary 2mm; stomach, skull, eyeballs saved 522♀ Mus musculus 139-71-18-12=10.9gm. USNM Field#25296;molt on head and back; ovary minute; stomach, skull, eyeballs saved 523♂ Mus musculus 172-90-20-15=16.6gm. USNM Field#25297; nomolt, skin discarded; testis(serotal)9mm; c.c. tubules present; skull, eyeballs, stomach saved

R.D.Kirkpatrick 1965 Catalog Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Jan. 524♂ Mus musculus 129-64-17-12=11.0gm. 10 USNM Field #25298; molt on left shoulder; (cont.) testis (scrotal) 9mm; c. tubules present; stomach empty, not saved; skull, skin, eyeballs saved 525♂ Mus musculus 133-69-18-12=10.5gm. USNM Field #25299; no molt, skin discarded; testis (abdominal) 7mm; c. tubules present; stomach, skull, eyeballs saved 526♀ Mus musculus 152-78-19-13=12.7gm. USNM Field #25300; no molt, skin discarded; ovary 3mm; stomach, skull, eyeballs saved 527♂ Mus musculus tip of tail missing HF-13; E-13=14.3gm. USNM Field #25301; no molt, skin discarded; testis (scrotal) 11mm; c. tubules present; stomach empty, discarded; skull, eyeballs saved 528♀ Mus musculus 145-78-18-12=10.5gm. USNM Field #25302; molt on hips and lower back; ovary 2mm; stomach not saved; skin, skull, eyeballs saved 529♀ Mus musculus 148-78-17-13=11.8gm. USNM Field #25303; no molt, skin discarded; ovary 4mm; stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs saved

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1935 Catalogue Sand Island Johnston Atoll, Pacific Jan 530 ♀ Mus musculus 149-73-18-13=15.0gm. 11 USNM Field #25304; no molt, skin discarded; 3 fetuses (2 in R, 1 in L) 14mm x 6mm - mmgs; stomach, skull, eyeballs saved 531 ♀ Mus musculus 172-90-20-14=17.7gm. USNM Field #25305; molt on lower back and hips; lactating; ovary 3mm; stomach empty, not saved; skull, skin, eyeballs saved 532 ♀ Mus musculus 161-80-19-13=14.9gm. USNM Field #25306; molt on left shoulder and posterior part of body; ovary 5mm.; skin, skull, stomach, eyeballs saved 533 ♂ Mus musculus 152-82-17-13=13.1gm USNM Field #25307; no molt, skin discarded; testis (scrotal) 9mm; E. L. tubules present; stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs saved 534 ♂ Mus musculus 137-70-17-12=10.4gm. USNM Field #25308; no molt, skin discarded; testis (scrotal) 9mm; E. L. tubules present; stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs saved

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Jan. 11 (cont.) Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific 535 ♂ Mus musculus 160-84-20-13 = 14.8 gm USNM Field # 25309; no molt, skin discarded testis (scrotal) 9 mm; σ & ♀ tubules present; skull, stomach, eyeballs saved 536 ♂ Mus musculus 160-81-20-14 = 16.6 gm. USNM Field # 25310; molt on posterior body; testis (scrotal) 11 mm; σ & ♀ tubules present; stomach, skull, eyeballs, skin saved 537 ♀ Mus musculus 165-89-19-14 = 15.0 gm. USNM Field # 25311; no molt, skin discarded; ovary 4 mm.; stomach, skull, eyeballs saved 538 ♂ Mus musculus 147-75-17-12 = 13.3 gm USNM Field # 25312; no molt, skin discarded testis (abdominal) 8 mm; no σ & ♀ tubules present; stomach, skull, eyeballs saved 539 ♂ Mus musculus 152-82-19-12 = 12.0 gm. USNM Field # 25313; no molt, skin discarded; testis (scrotal) 8 mm; no σ & ♀ tubules present; stomach, skull, eyeballs saved 540 ♀ Mus musculus 151-82-18-12 = 11.5 gm. USNM Field # 25314; no molt, skin discarded; 6 fetuses (3 in R, 3 in L) 5 mm crown-rumps, stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs saved

R.D Kirkpatrick 1965 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Jan. 541 ♀ Mus musculus 152-82-19-12=11.4gm. 11 USNM Field #25315; molt on head, shoulder, (cont.) and middle of back: ovary 3mm; stomach not saved; skull, skin, eyeballs saved 542 ♂ Mus musculus 147-78-18-13=14.0gm. USNM Field #25316; no molt, skin discarded; testis (scrotal) 10mm; no e.e. tubules present stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs saved 543 ♂ Mus musculus 142-76-18-13=11.5gm. USNM Field #25317; no molt, skin discarded; testis (scrotal) 10mm; no e.e. tubules present; stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs saved Jan. 544 ♀ Mus musculus 156-77-19-13=12.7gm. 12 USNM Field #25318; molt on shoulders and anterior back; ovary 3mm; stomach, skull, eyeballs, skin saved 545 ♀ Mus musculus 151-83-19-12=10.8gm. USNM Field #25319; no molt, skin discarded; ovary 3mm; 6 fetuses (4 on R, 2 on L) ≈ 3mm crown-rump; stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs saved 546 ♂ Mus musculus 140-78-17-12=9.2gm. USNM Field #25320; no molt, skin discarded; testis (scrotal) 9mm; e.e. tubules present; stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs saved

P.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Catalogue Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Pacific Jan 547 ♂ Mus musculus 147-78-17-12 = 13.6 gm. 12 USNM Field # 25321; no molt, skin discarded; (cont) testis (scrotal) 8 mm; e. e. tubules not present; stomach not saved; skull, eyeballs saved 548 ♂ Mus musculus 160-79-19-13 = 16.6 gm. USNM Field # 25322; no molt, skin discarded; testis (scrotal) 9 mm; e. e. tubules present; stomach, skull, eyeballs saved

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Catalog Baker Island, mid-Pacific Feb. 549 ♂ Mus 142-72-17-13=9.7gm. 4 USNM Field #5110; testis (scrotal) 8 mm. 550 ♂ Mus 145-74-18-13=9.9 gm. USNM Field #5111; testis (scrotal) 8mm. 551 ♀ Mus 130-71-18-12=8.7gm. USNM Field #5112; ovary minute; not pg. 552 ♂ Mus 145-74-18-13 USNM Field #5151; testis (scrotal) 7mm. skull only saved 553 ♂ Mus 150-75-17-12 USNM Field #5152; testis (scrotal) 9 mm skull only saved 554 ♀ Mus 127-66-17-12 USNM Field #5153; ovary minute; not pg skull only saved Hull Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Feb. 555 ? Canis familiaris 9 USNM Field #5154; skull only saved collected by R.W. Merrill 556? Felis domestica USNM Field #5155; skull only saved collected by R.W. Merrill

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Catalog Birnie Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Feb. 557♂ Rattus exulans 273-137-28-18 10 USNM Field #5122; testis (serotol) 20x12 mm. 558♂ Rattus exulans 273-139-29-17 USNM Field #5123; testis (serotol) 21x12 mm. skull only saved Matuau, Tutuila, American Samoa Feb. 559♂ Collocura 60-18-9-14-b.5-f.a.97=7.0gm. 23 USNM Field #5276; preserved in 10% formalin Feb. Viatoa, Tutuila, American Samoa 24 560♂ Pteropus 205-0-40-20-f.a.145=376gm. USNM Field #5147; skin and skull saved Palea Island, Fakaofo atoll, Tokalau Islands Feb. 561♂ Rattus exulans 297-155-29-18=76.1gm. 27 USNM Field #5274 testis 20x10mm, (serotol) 562♀ Rattus exulans 276-144-29-18=60.2gm. USNM Field #5273

R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Catalogue Yasumagalu Island, Nukunonu-Atoll, Tokelau Is. Mar. 563 ♂ Rattus exulans 295-152-31-20=90gm. castrate) 1 USNM Field #5205; testis 22x12 mm 564 ♀ Rattus exulans 273-146-29-18=69.0gm. USNM Field #5206; lactating Tokelau Island, Nukunonu Atoll, Tokelau Islands 565 Sus scrofa part of mandible only USNM Field #5207 Atafu Atoll, Tokelau Islands Mar. 566 ♀ Rattus exulans 274-132-31-20=92.5gm. 3 USNM Field #5226; 2 pr. pectoral mammae tip of tail missing?? 567 ♀ Rattus exulans 316-156-30-20=104.7gm. USNM Field #5227; pq., 4 embryos (3L,1R) 10mm crown-rump Motui, Tutuila, American Samoa Feb. 568 ♀ Emballonura 64-19-9-13-tv.6-f.a.49 23 USNM Field #5277; preserved in 10% formalin collected by L. Huber and R. Merrill 569 ♂ Emballonura 51-13-7-tv.4-f.a.35 USNM Field #5278; preserved in 10% formalin collected by L. Huber and R. Merrill

R.D. Kinkpatrick 1965 Catalogue Feb. 23 Matum, Tutuila, American Samoa Emballonura 83-19-9-13-h.5-f.a.48 USNM Field #5279; preserved in 10% formalin collected by L. Huber and R. Merrill Feb. 24 Viatoga, Tutuila, American Samoa Pteropus 208-0-39-26-f.a.128 = 416.2gm USNM Field #5280; preserved in 10% formalin Feb. 23 Matum, Tutuila, American Samoa Emballonura 54-12-9-12-h.4-f.a.35 USNM Field #5275; preserved in 10% formalin collected by L. Huber and R. Merrill