SI-MNH-958e 7-28-64 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG -- E C.A. GILBERT DATE 3 October 1964 Pg.# 1 STANDEN [illegible] sighted sights or time species # str. net remarks loc. 0630 watch begins - about 45 mile from X-mo Is. NW 0631 Sooty Tern 0642 Ruddy Pet 14 1 14 0645 Sooty Tern 1 1 1 0650 Wedge Tailed 2 2 16 0653 Sooty Pigeon 3 1 7 0658 " 27 3 43 Dark Plunge 0659 Widge Tail 25 4 68 fly low over No m ships direction - not feeding, 0701 " 1 2 from keel end ship 0703 " 3 3 7 - DX. 0715 " 1 4 8 0718 Sooty Tern 2 6 10 0720 Sooty Tern 15 5 83 0720 Wedge Tailed 15 4 98 0722 Fancy Tern 3 7 13 0725 Widge Tail 2 1 2 0725 " 2 8 15 0730 " 2 9 17 " 8 10 26 0737 Fancy Tern Sooty Terns everywhere passing ship towards X-mo 0737 Widge Tail 2 2 4 0745 Sooty Tern 2 11 27 0751 RT. Trop Bird 25 7 123 in last 15 min. 0752 Frigate Bird 3 1 3 0803 Widge Tail 1 1 1 0803 RT. Trop Bird 2 12 29 { watch stopped 0803 Sooty Tern 1 2 4 " 15 8 138 flyer 0825 " 35 9 178 0830 Widge Tail - very high not feeding. 0838 " 2 13 31 0839 Sooty Tern 2 14 32 0855 RT Trop Bird 6 10 179 0856 Fancy Tern 3 3 7 0900 RT TB 1 3 5 0900 Fancy Tern 1 4 8 0915 Frigate Bird 1 4 6 0920 " 1 2 2 " 1 3 3 0920 Tropi Bird RT. 3 7 11 0922 Sooty Tern 3 11 182 0925 Recessus Bootle 1 schadenst 0925 Sooty Tern 20 1 1 0926 Widge Tail 1 12 210 0928 " 1 15 34 " 1 16 35 0929 Cooper Petrel 0943 Frigate Bird 1 1 0943 RT. Trop Bird 2 4 5 0945 Sooty Tern 2 8 13 0958 Widge Tail 30 13 240 0957 Sooty Tern 2 17 37 1003 Wedge Tail 22 14 262 Sooty Terns still passing ship in large numbers. " 2 18 39