R. D. Brown Remarks #13 Sooty Tern 1962 Sooty Terns much more numerous than last year, colony (colonies) spread over much greater area than last July. Apparently the population has come down by eggs to lined. In some areas there are up to 50 or so more chicks, other areas have only an occasional chick hatched. The nest egg and stella informs me that some areas have no chicks at all—only eggs and that even some sections have birds down in clumps which did not yet started nesting. I have noted at least 20 double egg chicks and several double chick nests. In most cases one chick was slightly to considerably larger than the other — one being fed, the other no? Or have a eggs belonging to different P.P. [illegible] circulation periods come together by accident? Certainly some of the double clutches were the work of one P.P. since the pigmentation was a unusual marking or color and slightly unlikely for 2 birds to have laid similar eggs in the same nest. On the night of 17 June a parachute flare (20,000 candle