Greater Frigate - 3 Red-tailed Tropic Bird - 3 Following Birds Collected: Masked Booby - 10 Brown Booby - 3 Golden Plover - 5 Ruddy Turnstone - 3 Bristle-thighed Curlew - 2 Gray-backed Tern - 2 Wandering Tattler - 1 Other vertebrates: Series of skinks and gekkos collected. Estimated 20 some cats on the island - none shot. One turtle seen in the surf offshore. BAKER ISLAND Only one species of bird nesting (Common Noddy) and only small numbers of others seen footing on the island. Banded: 6 Adult, 12 Immature and 37 nestlings of Common Noddy Blood: Common Noddy - 10 Ruddy Turnstone - 3 Great Frigate - 1 Cat - 4 Collected: Golden Plover - 8 Ruddy Turnstone -9 Wandering Tattler - 3 Common Noddy - 10 Limosa sp? - 2 Ereunetes? sp? - 2 Other vertebrates: Series of skinks and gekkos collected. Estimated 15 cats on the island. Four collected. One turtle seen every day just offshore. Numbers of birds on Howland considerably less than last time. Baker Has more shorebirds including two species which we could not identify. Collected two of each species. Equipment holding up fairly well. Tents have gone through several heavy rains with only minor leaks. Chief has been running all blood samples on the ship thus taking a large amount of work off the Smithsonian Party. [illegible]