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Lehner, P.
1964
95
Oct. 27
village and got us shelter in one of the
huts he traps restored for his visits; according
to what he said to Binion, his father owns the
island; after the rain we showed the goose
to the native thinking that they may have
domesticated geese on another atoll, but he
indicated that he had never seen one before;
we left Erikub Is. at 12:15 and arrived at
the ship at 12:25; at 12:40 the ship
pulled anchor and headed for Ara de jairin
Is. on the northeast side of the lagoon; at
3:45 Binion, Roger, Larry and Chris went ashore,
primarily so that Chris could take pictures of
Brown Boobies; they returned for chow and
then at 6:10 all of us went in to band
Brown Boobies; we arrived at 6:20 - while we
were sitting around waiting for it to get
dark, a Red-footed Booby flew overhead, but
efforts to collect it failed; at dark we
started out banding and took blood from six
Brown Boobies - they had taken four samples on
the earlier trip in the afternoon; the Boobies were
concentrated on the more open northeast side
of the island where they were roosting and nesting;
they had both eggs and chicks; several of the
(over)