Kehner, P. 1964 81 Oct. 23 up at 6:00 A.M.; we quickly loaded gear in one of the rafts and headed for Taka where we left Roger and Larry off to collect Noddies and the red-rumped Ruddy Turnstone if possible, the rest of went over to Lojiron Is. to look for Wedgetails that Andy (the English speaking native) had described as nesting there; we beached the raft at 6:30 - Ken and George worked around the beach with a shotgun looking for unusual shorebirds while Binion and I searched for burrows; I found one empty burrow while Binion found five, all with chicks; we took one almost full grown ~~juvenile~~ back with us for blood and a specimen; the poor visibility of the early morning light made Ken and George's task almost impossible - they returned with only an unusual crab Ken had found; we left Lojiron at 7:05 and beached on Taka at 7:10 where we saw Roger and Larry coming down the beach with the Common Noddy they had collected; we left Taka at 7:15 and arr. at the ship at 7:25 where we began preparing gear for Jemo, which we hoped to land on in the late afternoon; the ship pulled out of Taka Lagoon about 9:00 A.M. and headed toward Jemo on a 185° S course; (over)