Lehner P. 1964 68 Oct. 20 up at 6:00 A.M.; at 7:15 we headed out in the rafts in two groups to visit and survey the islands for birds and camp sites; Binion, George and Larry went to Tata and Loijiron Islands; Ken, Roger and myself went to Boken and Eluk Islands; the great depth of the lagoon became very evident as we headed for Boken Is.; we arrived at 9:00 on Boken, nothing more than a large pebbly sand deposit on the coral reef; there is no vegetation at all on the islet; we found one dead Green turtle on the north shore and one alive on the south shore - she had crawled from the northeast corner of the islet around to the south side and was headed west along the beach, her underides leaving a bloody trail from scraping on rocks; Black-naped we saw: one Wandering Tattler, ~ 25 Terns, ~ 40 Hawaiian Noddies, ~ 4 Common Noddies, ~ 10 Ruddy Turnstones, ~ 10 Golden Plover, 1 Crested Tern, 3 Brown Boobies; Roger and I walked east across the coral reef to Eluk Island while Ken and Tom Jones brought the raft up; Eluk is a heavily vegetated island with: Scavola, Messerschmidia, possibly Pisonia, a grass and a couple vines; their Monitor butterflies (black+brown), spiders, ants, flies, and grasshoppers; the reef extends out for 200 yards on (cover)