RS Cassin, Leewards 13 Journal 1966 24-37N; 168-13W — 25-14 N; 170-25W 9 June Bird numbers still holding slight. An increasingly greater number of Albatross, preominantly, Black-tet as Day proposed. Very few old terms (CN, BEW, HN, FT) practically all Sooty — 426 — Probably Dayaan breeding birds. Another Caspian, prov likely, treated term spotted Today. Great abundance of wedgetail, 391. 75% over half? were rested within last hour before sunset when we were stopped over Haro Reef. I took the sniff out about an hour before sunset and worked huge flocks of pure wedgetail and both Albatrosses all mixed. At one point out in the shift I Observed a large number of birds on the water all crowding around an object (ca. 50 Black-tet Albatrosses, 5 Dayaan Albatrosses, and 40-50 Wedy- tails — The object of attention was an old Aircraft Red light bulb about 6 inches long — the large end all shiny where apparently the albatross had been drilling it in last testing Only a very few terms (ca. 10-12) were encountered in 7,150 Wedgetail and 7,68 Albatrosses. Sooty terms more abundant all afternoon however. Due to arrival at day's end of sun. RS Cassin Journal: Leewards trip #13 1966 Dayaan Island 10 June Landed on island 0545. No incident, water calm. The vegetation (specifying the Scaevola) is much lower than last August. (Both species?) Albatross Chicho look to be farther along than last year. Set up camp and took the terior crew around island for a pourney of Shroliuids, Seals & Albatross count. Banded 9,500 Southern at night. 11 June Started breaking people in on making out banding schedules etc. Spun a small collection of blood. Banded 10,000 Sooty term at night. 12 June Spun down a small collection of blood, processed the collected Shroliuids etc., bed breaking schedules, returns to, made complete Dayaan teaklout Banded 10,200 Sooty Terms, collected about 70 samples of blood. 13 June Brought the entire crew out to the ship's sleep. The flies are almost as bad as last August. Spun down blood samples and set off new astrolab to band Albatross. 14-16 June Still banding Sooty term adults. The birds are amazingly dense, well well for banding out. We are averaging 10,000 esp a night with a seven man crew.