R.Clapp - 1964 Nov. 14 . Makin Atoll, Gilbert Islands. Spent a rather dull day aboard ship skinning birds (8 Hawaiian Noddies) while the rest went out in two parties to collect birds. Binion, Phil, and Ken went back to and then on to . They returned at 4:30 with a large number of birds including a red-rumped ruddy turnstone. I spent the rest of the day helping lable birds and making molt notes on them. George and Larry returned from Butaritari later with a number of shorebirds but nothing especially unusual, although they note seeing a "stilt" of some kind and perhaps two species of godwits (perhaps some 60 of same.