30 pitifully small number. However, we did capture some interesting birds. One Brown Booby, Band No. 697-70680, was captured in a subadult plumage. Head, neck and back dark brown, a few under wing coverets and the whole belly a mottled brown. The plumage is essentially that of an adult with a sprinkling of brown on the belly, but much less brown than in the Juvenals. I also noted that all the booby were molting at the moment. Masked and Browns in particular are losing their flight and tail feathers. Brown Booby No. 597-83244 was captured, and of the seven tail feathers on each side of center, the Right first and Left third feather were the last to grow back, and growth was asymmetrical. Brown Booby No 697-24528 was growing in new primaries, and the alula and first primary were the last to grow in, and growth was symmetrical on both wings. I also noted that Red-feet have two less tail feathers than Browns (6 to a side as opposed to 7 to a side, 12 and 14 total.). Frigates are also molting heavily now with some adults missing as many as three primary feathers at once. 11-2-63 Slept in this AM and then up to look for Black-feet around the island and found only birds which we have already done: Only five birds were located on the island, and 10 seals were seen. Rained most of last night and it is still up to that sporadically today. Caught up on letters, notes, and some of the records and unfroze several of the birds for skinning tonight. 11-03-63 Spent today cleaning up odds and ends-- laundry, skinning a tattler, and working up several more skeletons which the dermestids had finished with. We now have eight completely cleaned skeletons ready for shipment back, and an equal number being cleaned. I gave Ken a lesson on Bird skinning and was gratified at the results: He did remarkably well for his first attempt, although it took him nearly four hours. Got x five more gooneys today, and again saw several unbanded sharp-tails. In our travels of the past few days we have not seen the two ducks; Neither have we seen any of the Laysan Albatross. With the lab back in operation we are able to pick away at the accumulation of skinning to be done, and now only three Boobys and a tropicbird remain frozen. Late in the afternoon we set the rat traps.