I also saw but did not hit [ 38 ] an adult ♂ ( ? ) Gadwall with the large very conspicuous speculum. a recuperating bird Killer: You all should see me when I'm in form and healthy. The corpses were frozen. About noon I called Bill at Kure and read him the message and told him of the situation on [illegible] Midway and hoped to make the plane back tomorrow. In the evening I took in the Sophia Loren flick at the O club and got cornered by the CO of the Coast Guard Inspectors who bought me enough CC to light the way home and I stumbled into bed about 12 PM after trying to see the petrel popu- lations once more: I couldn't manage it. 11-14-63 After an interesting ride over on the UF where I stoically cursed every bottle of CC ever made, I arrived home at 1000. The Navy today at Bill's suggestion provided us with a man and wide-angle lens camera to photograph the island vertically from the air. Spent the rest of the AM nursing the head and getting the birds collected at Midway and my gear in order. After lunch and a soaking of my thumb for an hour ( It acted up again today. ) we three trundled off to find gooneys. Three Black-foots had eggs, and one had fresh blood on it marking it as several hours old: Monday was the last time we worked this beach, and the oldest egg is no more than 72 hours laid. We had our difficulties today, not the least of which was my damn thumb that bothered me all day - especially when the gooneys clomped on it. We collected one adult female Laysan which apparently had been injured by some agent for it died when we handled it and on autopsy we found an otherwise normal body with a large contused left side. In the evening instead of watching the Gulls in Hitchcock's Psyco flick Ken and I played ghouls by skeletonizing her ( the albatross ) and performing a complete autopsy: Notes of interest from the autopsy were; 62 mm largest ovum ( How would that look on a warbler table? ), with the next two largest ova at 4 and 3.5 mm respectively: Weight 2997.8 gms; Moderate Fat; In the stomach were 6 Squid beaks and only liver bile and a stone; In the intestine which was devoid of food were two cestodes - One a very small one of the approximate size of the Mus bornes Hymenolepis nana ( Maximum length 60 mm, maximum width .5 mm, very small scolex ) was located from the stomach posterior for 16 - 18 inches; this cestode then gave way to a larger ( Maximum length 140 mm., Maximum Width 3 mm. ) more robust worm with a large scolex ( 1.5 x 2.0 mm. Approximated 10,000 of the small and 125-200 of larger worms were present in this host. The larger worms