27 Late in the afternoon I went hunting for a few minutes and noted a flock of Hawaiian Noddys feeding along the shore: I waited 10 minutes until they were done and then shot three, and this decision proved to be fortunate as I recovered 15 fish from two of them, and from one prepared as a skeleton I found 9 rather large stomach nematodes ( Probably Spiurids ) which resemble the North American Genus Physaloptera in many gross physical respects. Froze the other two, and Got the go ahead from Joe Goodwin to resume skinning at least during the bad weather. Late in the evening worked on the MeBee cards trying to catch up on the 50 or so specimens which I have not yet put on these cards. One measurement I do not understand is that of measuring the tail length rather that total body length: All the measuring schemes for bird skins that I have come across measure tip of bill to tip of tail feathers, and none do tail feather length. I would hope that this is a misprint on the cards, as I have been measuring total length instead. 10-27-63 Spent much of this day hunting: Saw little of note except a sanderling, and two more Erolia. Relaxed in the afternoon and met our new liason officer at Midway and it appears that our good relations there will be continued. Skinned several birds in the P.M. 10-28-63 Rained most of the AM today, and after it stopped Bill and I went to erect the tower on the North-West Beach. I did some more hunting and skinning today getting two turnstones when shooting at an Erolia. Apparently the Erolia's here are mostly Sharp-tails ( acuminata ) and they are reasonably abundant there being perhaps as many as 20 individuals on the island. 10-29-63 Up this AM and spent several hours in the North Tower observing that end of the island. In the afternoon I delivered an information lecture to the men, and then went hunting again as my watch was out of commission keeping me from the observation tower. We set up the mist nets and in the evening caught quite a number of plovers, one turnstone, and a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper. In the evening I skinned three birds and began to weigh and measure each of the shorebirds caught: By weighing and measuring these small shorebirds we ought to gather a lot of information without having to kill the birds. Each bird has a MacBee card on which up to 20 recaptures can be noted. Soon we should have a marked population of these here .