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SI-MNH-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG - E
C.H. Hallbert Creme 76
14th Day.
DATE 5 OCTOBER 1964
Pg.# 1
Solstatly
Set off Northern Trip of Christmas Island.
time species # ctr. lst. remarks loc.
1415 Watch begins.
numerous Albatrus about very boisterous.
will not begin count until numbers drop off.
1447 Cooks Pet 1 1 1
1450 Peters Sheara 3 3 3 Can see dark above light below - large birds not Cookson Phoenix
1452 Sooty Tern 1 1 1
1452 Frigatebird 1 1 1
1452 Sooty Tern 3 2 4
1453 Fairy Tern 1 1 1
1453 Bird 1 1 1 Storm Petrel of some type ??? dark head white neck
light below except tail dark slow - gliding
along hondo sleep for 15 min. Slop it but awake, smaller bird.
Flock 1525 Flock Sooty Tern 6570 3 70
Masked Booby 15 1 15
Wedgetail She. 5 1 5
Chinstrap Is.Sh. 2 1 2
Blue-gray Weddy 2 1 2
Frigatebird 1 2 2
90 Birds
1540 Cooky 1 1 1
1540 Sooty Tern 1 4 71
1548 Cooks Pet 1 2 2
1549 Wedgetail 2 2 2
1600 Sooty Tern 3 7 74
1600 Wedgetail 2 4 9
1604 RTB 1 1 1
1605 Christmas Is.Sh. 1 2 3
1610 Sooty Shear 1 1 1
1610 Fairy Tern 2 98 76
1611 Wedgetail 1 5 10
1615 Fairy Tern 3 2 4
1625 Chest Is 1 3 4
1625 Wedglet 1 6 11
1625 Sooty Tern. 13 9 77
1626 Sooty Shear 2 2 3
1632 Wedgetail 1 7 12
1634 Tern Society 3 10 80
1636 Frigate 1 3 3
1640 Wedgetail 3 8 15
1645 Cooks Pet 1 3 3
Flock 1650 Flock
TERNS
Booby 40
10
1653 RTB 1 2 2
1654 Sooty Shear 1 3 4
1655 Savy Tern 1 16 81
1657 Blueface Booby 1 2 16
1659 Shear sculls 2 1 2
1700 Sooty Tern 2 11 83
1702 Sooty Shear 2 4 6
1704 Fairy Tern 1 3 6