FOOTENy res.cee ‘ 2 um 14s oe 4. § pe: a: pete “4: & *: or i joe: ee - Be e & et it & o er eh € OB. er’ LE oo eS 2B oe. - and 2B ae) | Be 8 aun anothenindfrémthe slopes’ of the*soil deday”curves, | ~ che’ average slope being~1.25 (=1,05 to’-1536)> Phia’ indiedtes that in these planta littleorno differential uptakeoffission productmaterial has been taking ‘place. In coconutea;. however, 5 fission products mixtures with longer halflives have been ab- sorbed into themeat and milk fractions, Decay ourve slopes —— RASHLyiaky lack of *.96 and +,54for the coconut’ meatand-,24 from the cocd~ °° | nut milk indicate a different: isotope mixtuve’ from that found in ! soil collected’ in the same area.’ : | enn Birds 2 7 ae wpe Re: if - —. Birds were ‘collected at, four, islands of. the atoll..“spect i mens fromthenorthern Aslanda of Gejen, Kabelle and Labared$ i ; were consideredto. be,from the ‘sane, areaand Kere collected on iF Lap. were taken only on January 26, A955 se iP og Waste : allfour dates,while those from the southernssland of.Ronge~ Thebirds are of.two, types.as based on feeding. habits and ~ migratory characteristics. ‘These. ares,Q) the. noday, crested ih wy pene PM papmeneee menetnggs me geetgee co L and fairy terns, which ‘tend to atay in the vicinity.of a few - TeREE eres - islands withintheatolland feedprincipally on smallfish, and (2) the migratory shore birds, which are transients and feed mainlyon erystaceans,along thebeaches. ‘The iatter group in- cludes the Plovers,_curlews, turnstones,and tattlers, ae - , Rae terns, |because of their,limited tendencyformigration , 2 aKe. morerepresentative‘thanare ‘the,shore birds with regard to f ebronic uptakeofradioactivematerial,_ PAEa AeALAA ERUTRL tes See OE rere EME EY WN ee SNH mepace aba aeerte / i : ‘ }