45 11-25-63 With today the day of National mourning for President Kenne dedy, we accomplished little here. Bill was annoyed at not being able to get at the building, and so we cleaned up odds and ends. I packed up some of the supplies for Midway, organized the perpetual mess of equipment that comes with hurried use, and spent much of the day organizing my thoughts about the coming time to be spent at Midway. 11-26,27-63 We spent all of these two days erecting the building: By sunset the 27th it was all up and needed only to have the trim painted to be finished. The plane from Midway today brought the rest of the wood, and so we should get the benches, tables and rough furniture constructed tomorrow: By Sunday we may be moved in. Bill left on the plane today, and I will leave on Sunday's flight. Lately there has not been much time for birds, so tomorrow being thanksgiving we may rest by birding a bit. 11-28,29-63 We spent these two days working on the house, and by the evening of the 29th we had electricity installed on a "private" 20 Amp. line, all of the trim painted, door on, windows in, and the base of the building cemented in. In the evening of the 29th we packed up the next trunk of skins, etc. to be shipped back to D.C. Tomorrow we should get tables installed, and in the PM do the birding which needs to be done - I hope. 11-30-63 Today we finished the building by installing 40 sq. feet of shelving, painting the floor and cleaning up all of the tools that we had borrowed. In the evening I packed the gear for Midway and set to writing some long overdue letters. 12-1-63 to Up today to survey the beach before going on the Midway. Black-feets seem to all have their eggs now, and I found one bird with two eggs in the nest. Before we got to the west 'h beach the rains hit and canceled out further activities. In the morning we had a Laysan land on the lawn of the station. With the Black-foot egg as a stimulus I began to experiment with the lone bird as to his responses to the egg, and what was important to it to sit on the egg. I presented the egg to the bird at a distance of about 4 feet. As soon as I backed away, the albatross