Lehner P. 1965 Jan. 14 Doc packed in preparation for leaving today, we marked the old Gray-backed eggs, finding one new one; found a Red-tailed Tropicbird (return # 565-12017) under Scaevola by pump house; Binion found 2 Christmas Island Shearwaters under a concrete slab on the east shore; Doc got a call that there was room on the 12:45 flight if he could make - so we did; Binion, Norm and I got a car from Mr. Lee McCaffery of H+N and surveyed the extent of Johnston Island; we found two banded Red-tailed Tropic birds on eggs (# 565-12029 and 565-12070), found # 565-12033 under bush with no egg, but with # 565-12069 pointed green on the sixth on Sand Island; in total we found: 8 Red-tailed Tropicbirds, 1 White-tailed Tropicbird, 106 Golden Plover (1 orange tagged), and 3 Ruddy Turnstones; flocks appear to be getting slightly larger; returned to Sand Is. on UP; found 2 new Gray-back eggs on Pier and 2 destroyed eggs on islet; at 11:45 P.M. the Sooty Tern population was down to about 60,000 birds.