visit and this was quickly smoothed over by the captain. 14431 bird of 10 species were banded as broken down below. Species Cook I Motu Tabu Motu Uua Eastern end of Christmas I. Red-tailed TropicBird 30 19 10 -- Wedge-tailed Shearwater -- 500 500 -- Christmas I. Shearwater -- 400 2300 -- Phoenix I. Petrel -- 600 800 -- Blue-faced Booby -- -- -- 11 Red-footed Booby -- -- 71 -- Sooty Tern 5690 -- -- -- Fairy T rn -- 24 26 -- Blue-gray Noddy -- 1 -- -- Hawaiian Noddy 2700 349 400 -- 12 birds of five species were collected including a Christmas Island Shearwater?? with considerable areas of white in the plumage. Twenty species of birds were recorded for the island of which 10 and probably 13 were breeding. Malden Island The landing here was made under calm conditions and no trouble was experienced at any time. The S.I. party stayed in the old AEC? camp left from 1962. Because of the large size of the island considerable time was spent walking. An average days work required 15 miles of walking and on the last day part of the party covered 30 plus miles . Birds were very scattered with almost all species and individuals nesting on islands in the central lagoon. Predation by the mammal population seemed to be the major reason for this concentration on islands.