King, Warren B. 1964 BCF Cruises 24 March 18--Red-tailed Tropicbirds noted in moaning, three at once, doing some pinwheel display behavior. All but the first T.B. (0826) had short tail feathers, some none too red. One had eyellow bill and short, almost white retrices but the size and all white auxiliars gave it away. Sundell saw New Zealand Shearwater at 1129, very close to ship. He noted black cap, light grey neck and back, very strongly marked dark bars on wings (upper surface) and back forming inverted W pattern. Harcourt's Storm Petrel also came very close. Possibility of collecting both. A smallish Shearwater with pointed wings was indistinctly seen during abandon ship drill. A good feeding flock was spotted by watch at 1340 with Sooty Terns above and Shearwaters and Petrels below. Our count 504, watch's count 125. Watch also noted that the flock contained Noddy Terns and Tropicbirds. Neither of these were seen by us. The latter is especially questionable. At 1500 a large, dark gull-like bird was seen by Sundell, but not clearly. He called it a Jaeger sp. Very far from land for Jaegers to be seen. At 1555 13 Sooty Terns, at least two of which were immatures, passed over and around ship. The immatures were heard to call. One was less than 50 feet from the ship. If it is assumed that the immature plumage lasts only six months the birds were most likely from the Line Islands since there are no birds breeding in fall on Leewards, offshores or Johnston. At 1711 a shearwater was seen by King at a mile's distance silhouetted against the horizon. It was flying in long, high scaling arcs reminiscent of Sooty Shearwaters perhaps. March 19--Two Bonin Island Petrels seen before 7:30 a.m., the second imperfectly. The first flapped quite a bit and didn't scale much but the