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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
DATE 30 Sept 64
Pg.# 1
STANDED
Subtotals
Systop number.
time species # sys. subtot. remarks loc.
0625 watch began
0627 Sooty Tern 1 1 1
0630 " " 1 2 2
0632 " " 1 3 3
063c " " 1 4 4
0636 R.F. Brooks 2 1 2
0637 Fairy Tern 1 1 1
0640 " " 2 2 3
0642 Phoenix Is Pet. 1 1 1 seen it very well.
0644 Cook's Detail 1 1 1
" " 1 2 2
0651 Fairy Tern 4 3 7
0653 shear Pet. 2 12 2
0701 Birdly Ternsone 1 1 1
0701 Sooty Tern 8 5 12
0703 Fairy Tern 1 4 8
0713 Phoenix Is. Pts 1 2 2
0713 Sooty Tern 4 4 16
Flock 0726 Fairy TERN 60 to 5 68
Brooks R.F. 2 2 4 {63}
Steer 1 2 3
0747 36 Fairy TERNS came post the cliff - probably from flock we passed.
0748 Barley R F 4 3 8
0753 Phoenix Is. Pet 1 3 3
- 100
0755 Frigate Bird 1 1 1
0805 Sooty TERN 2 7 18 joined groups of Fairy Terns still flying north west
0810 R.F. Brooks 1 4 9
" " 2 5 11
Flock 0833 R.F. Brooks 2 6 13
0844 Fairy TERN 4 6 72
Sooty Tern 3 8 21 } 9
Brooks R F 2 7 15
0847 Sooty Shearwater 1 1 2
" " 1 2 2
0900 Frigatebird 2 2 3
0904 Sooty Tern 9 22
0916 R.F. Brooks 2 8 17
Flock 0950 WASHINGTON IS. SIGHTED
FLOCK
Hawaiian Noddy 52 1 52 {Total Birds } Noddy bet on the saw many to do it's
Blue gray Noddy 5 1 5 Saw gray tail on noddy's they were smaller than
R.F. Brooks 24 9 41 { 103 others seen in Palmyra
Fairy Tern 22 7 94
1050 left Flock sitting on the though it was a fairy tern & had not
1055 white faced tropic 1 1 1 seen any people here. Coconut Term ship to look because of GT.
1130 Flock chased until 1320
1320 Same one at dawn. left flock May be both kinds of Noddy in flock ??
Saw more noddies getting on H20.