behner, P. 1964 52 Oct. 17 up at 7:50 A.M.; it's not raining (an extremely rare occasion); checked the Sherman traps but no mice, only an occasional Hermit crab; pressed the plants Ken had collected on Bikar Island; at 10:20 the raft from the ship arrived; Roger went out banding Boobies; Simon went collecting insects; Ken and George went to northeast islet and banded Sooty Tern chicks; Chris and myself went to the interior of the island to photograph the White-tailed Tropic bird nest; the island appears to be fully complemented with a gecko, a skink, 2-3 species of spiders (numerous individuals), grasshoppers, ants, moths, mites, and ticks; at 11:45 I observed an Frigate chase between 2 female adult Frigates; almost all the species have been seen flying beneath the dense forest canopy: Red-footed and Brown Boobies, Fairy Terns, Common Noddies, White-tailed Tropicbirds and Great Frigatebirds - Frigates leave by dropping down and flying close to the ground until they reach the thicker area near the edge and then they flap along the ground until on the beach; they appear to instinctively head in a direction for the beach in no more than 90° from the wind direction; there are infrequent mushrooms growing in the wet humus layer beneath the Pisonia canopy; numerous rotting logs seem to provide for what is a deep, dark, rich humus topsoil; there are also mycologic growths on the sides of Pisonia trees; (over)