King, Warren B., 1963-1964
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One Black-footed Albatross followed us all day At 0703 another Bird-footed Shearwater passed, this time rather close, 150 yds or so. Previous descriptions same, except for dark band, perhaps only partial, around upper breast, lower neck area. 4 Harlequins and 2 Storm petrel sp. seen, all of forms Type B. 2 Red-tailed Tropics today - A large number for this area. Dave saw a dark phased Wedgetail - very dark he said 5 Pomarine Jaegers today, even though we are over 300 miles from land. 1 dark, 1 light, 1 dark chest & light abdomen. At 1230 Dave saw a [illegible], grey backed, deeply forked white tailed Tern with white underparts, which was Arctic Tern? flying N.N Not seen as well as could have been. 6 Sooty Shearwaters, all in the afternoon all heading NW to W. During morning passed close by Scripps Research Ship Argo - 210 ft - Capt. Collinson friend of Dolly Lee's, the capt of I.Cromwell. They are bound for Honolulu and Indian Ocean for 6 months. In afternoon scrambled out boom over water to replace block on port BT which had slipped its pulley Fin.