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Journal
Feb 19 AT SEA.
Saw a weird Procelliformes today:
It was bulwer size maybe [illegible] but with
slightly shorter wings. Sort of like a
small all dark Bonin. It was brown
above with a white cap and lighter brown
on the underside of the wings. It appeared
for all the world like a Hawaiian moddy but
it was definately a procelliformes and
probably a petrel. I think it had a roundal
tail but am not certain. I did not see
any fork. It [illegible] looked like a cross
between a harowar mod and a Bonin in
appearance. Alexander has no bird
in it which resembles it at all.
Feb 21 - Samoa.
Last time I was here I went to a place.