18 10-10-63 I spent most of the day in doors working on the odds and ends which have frayed out these last weeks. Had to replace battery and recalibrate the telethermometer, and got a rapid 75 minute haircut from one of the Coastguardsmen. Went hunting for about two hours: Saw the usual stuff plus one Lesser Yellowlegs which I could not get close to. Tagged a couple of boobys and spent the rest of the day gathering energy for a big banding push tomorrow night. Bill has asked that I prepare a report on projected and in progress ornithological projects, and I expect to spend much of tomorrow and the rest of tonight on that. 10-11-63 Raining when we got up this AM so set to work on the accumulated birds in the icebox for skinning. Discarded the two turnstones, one spoiled, one badly beaten up and leaking blood, but did skin the two plovers plus a bird-of-the-year ( fledged ) Red-footed Booby. Having trouble with the dermestids which have an ability to get into the drying skins inspite of moth balls and drying lights. Green Island at times seems to be a large dermestid incubator. Collected several grasshoppers. In then evening organized a group to band and take temperatures. We worked the two shearwater-petrel areas, and all of the Masked and Brown Boobys. I believe now that further night operations with these species of Boobys will be largely fruitless, and we expect now to change and work mostly on Red-footed Boobys and Frigates. I obtained an enough temperatures on the boobys to outline the diurnal-nocturnal temperature cycles for the two species, and the series on Bonins and Wedgetails should give a start there. I in the sack by 1030 hours. 10-12-63 Spent most of these two days working in doors on the report on active and proposed ornithological projects for Kure. I have some ideas for physiological research based on the availability of altricial species which to my eyes are dazzling. There is an opportunity here to add data on Standard Metabolic Rates, and Development of homiothermy in at least a dozen species. Unlike the other outposts where available electric power and supply bases are lacking, Kure with Midway's help represents the perfect place to set up a physiologists laboratory. The return of publishable important data from this program for a several thousand dollar investment could be staggering. Importantly, the bird species