Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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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)