Lehner, P. 1964 69 Oct. 20 - continued all sides of the island; I estimated the following bird populations: 3000 Fairy Terns, 1500 Sooty Terns, 800 Hawaiian Noddies, 400 Common Noddies, 2 Red- tailed Tropicbirds, 1 Brown Boobies flying offshore; there are approximately 200 Hawaiian Noddy nests, some with chicks about half grown - they have build nests out of dead leaves in forked branches of Messerschmidtia; we found one Common Noddy nest with one egg; also we found a small egg, (mottled) like a Noddy egg, in a slight depression on top of the boulder ridge on the south shore; it was probably a Fairy Tern or Black-naped Tern egg; at 10:55 we left Etok Is. and returned to the ship, arriving at 11:25; the other raft did not arrive until 12:15 - they had seen a painted Brown Booby (undoubtedly one we had just painted on Bikar Atoll) and found 75-100,000 Sooty Terns with small chicks on Taka Island; at 1:50 we all left the ship and headed for Taka arriving at 2:20; Taka Island has one very large plantation of coconut palms which takes up nearly all of the western half of the islands; there are four low grass huts near the west beach which appear to be used off and on by the natives; we found a lot of Pandanus and numerous other species of plants including knee high ferns; the