Bratley, D.A. 1965 Sand Island, Johnston Atoll (Notes) Sun. Feb. 21 p.1 Sand Island — arrived on this island Feb. 17 after spending 2 nights in Honolulu + the last weekend at home. Since have been making schedules plus putting sooty tern + boobies studies into effect. The same six sooty tern plots as last years we being checked daily now for number of eggs laid + hatched. Each egg is marked with the laying date to determine the length of incubation. Plots 1 + 5 are the only ones occupied yet with 43 + 23 50x50 eggs respectively. Two [illegible] foot area have been staked out for capturing sooties, one area for sooties without eggs + the other for sooties in which the eggs will be destroyed. The past two evenings have been used to capture + paint green (mint only) 100 sooties in the first [illegible] foot plot (#7). 1000 birds are expected to be banded or painted in each plot, however the birds are rather unsettled in plot #7 as they are just moving into it, therefore catching is difficult in such a limited area. The birds have not started to move into the 2nd [illegible] foot plot (#8) set aside for sooties in which the eggs will be destroyed. A blind is also nearly completed for observing behavior of sooty terns in plots. The blind is large enough to place a chair inside + is of a wooden frame. The span