28 In the afternoon's hunting I also saw a teal ( probably Green- winged ) but did not shoot him. In the evening Bill caught by hand a short squat " scoup-like " duck on the sidewalk which I think is also an asian variety. 10-30-63 Up at 7 and spent several hours working on the equipment and the balance of the morning on the skeletons which have been bugged. The dermestids do nearly as good a job as the ones in the U.S. colonys as we now have seven fully cleaned skeletons ready for shipment home. I inoculated several more skeletons with dermestid larvae also. In the afternoon I finished up the McBee Cards for the bird specimens taken thus far and also typed up the physiological research report and proposal for sending back to D.C. on the plane. Ken arrived in good health and spirits and was supprised to find the cooperation which we enjoy here: Apparently this was not true at Johnston, about 1600 we took ken around the island seeing one black-foot and two ducks, one of which was a green-winged teal and another of the same size and proportions of the one that Bill got yesterday. Couldn't get close enough to shoot. In the evening I skinned the duck from yesterday and showed Ken the problems and techniques of making bird skins. We should always have someone here who is able to make skins of unusual birds as freezing makes skinning of small and badly shot up birds doubly hard. In bed by 0030. 10-31-63 Slept in a bit this AM and then up to rearrange our equip- ment as the C.G. has given us a new set of shelves to put our equipment on. Finally our make-shift lab space is beginning to get uncluttered. In the afternoon I spent some time preparing one skeleton and completeing everything on the McBee Cards up through specimen 20152. I am afraid that I have not taken some of the measurements properly, in particular wing and tail. In taxonomic work with gulls which is the only experience of measuring which I have had, wing span and total length rather t than wing ( mamus to tip of primarvs ) and tail measurements were the important criteria. It was not until the McBee cards arrived here and I began filling them in that I realized this error: Fortunately, these two measurements can be completed on the skins. We again circled the island in the evening in search of newly arrived Black-feets and found five, and also tagged several seals. Some notes on the abundance of Erolia acuminata ( Sharp-tailed Sandpiper ): Today we saw two more and banded another. Apparently this sandpiper is a regualr