June 8 cont. - In the afternoon we tried to work out in the tent under mosquitoes netting - but to no avail since the flies and heat were unbelievable - too miserable to work - so we went back to the tug. Upon return I grabbed my set and went out to take forty returns - got 119 on a Sand-Johnston bird from Sept 1962. At night we took it upon ourselves to bleed our quota of 200 birds per island. We walked down to the lagoon and got 25 BT Bobbies and then stumbled onto several large groups of roosting frigate- got about 125 of them, and then got 50 Wedgies. It was funny to watch the horny old males hop onto the females Wedgies who just bled (sapped of their strength) and bump away like frenzy. The poor old female was too tired to do anything. At 5 am we ended our marathon. We have not eaten the last 4 meals - strictly a liquid diet of juice. June 9- Slept long enough to get back to the ship just in time for dinner and slept the rest of the afternoon. At 1600 I went back to Laupau and took 142 returns, then went out with Stadel later on to land and take Blue-faced Bobby Returns down by the lagoon - Walking around it we banded 50 and took slightly more returns. At 0100 we found a Forty Storm Petrel in The Lagoon - drowned. Apparently, it was a young bird since we have noticed young Brown's Petrels in the same predicament. This offered the only "excitement" of the day other than an additional year afflicted to my wrist by a bobby. Went to bed about 0300. June 10- Today was similar to yesterday - went back to the tug to cut and escape the flies and take a shower to kill perhaps the first case of B.O. I've ever had. If you think I was bad, you should smell that rotten Thompson - whew! Since Bob is still hot for returns I largely got 80 before drinking dinner. Before dark Stadel and I went out to take cuben measurements of Laupau and Blackfoot clicks. Apparently he and some of the earlier birdmen worked out a correlation of age of click with