King, Warren B. 1964 38 April 2 --An epic day! Hundreds of birds all day. Black-feet started with two birds at 0555 building to seven at 1223. Laysan's seemed peculiarly curious about the ship. One followed for at least 1/2 hour and all three followed for a few minutes. Of seven Harcourts seen one was ? and others were Type B. Sundell saw a ? Bonin Island Petrel at 0914. Many shorebirds were seen today, eight, all looking the same as previous ones-light and small. They seem to pay no attention to the ship. One Red-tailed Tropicbird, the first in several days was seen at 1225. A Bulwer's Petrel was seen at 1513 and at 1525 two ? Sooty Terns seen by Termite. At 1610 an all back storm petrel, forked tail appeared to be present, was seen by King, called Sooty Storm Petrel? Sooty Shearwaters started at 0951 and continued all day in a fairly steady stream; sometimes as many as six or so would be visible at one time. They were mostly individuals, some twos and threes and fours but none of the tight packed flocks seen in November. One individual was seen to be lacking the silver underwings, although the flight pattern confirmed the species identification; it was also accompanied by a silver lined bird. 155 and 30 probables filed past the ship in an unending stream. Prospects for more of the same for tomorrow look good. April 3--Sooty Shearwaters today in masses. 133 of them in twelve hours and fifty minutes, excluding about one hour or so of time when no one was counting. Adding those that weren't seen a total of 2000 for the area we traversed is probably quite conservative. Considering that the 120 miles we covered are equal to 240 square miles of observation