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SI-MNR-958e
7-28-64
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
DIVISION OF BIRDS
AT SEA DAILY LOG -- E
DATE 9 June 1966
Pg. # 1
NOON POSITION: 24-49N; 169-17W
time species # dir. hgt. remarks loc.
523 premiere
0523 BFA 2 following
0533 wedgetail 3 light
C 0534 wedgetail 2 light - 1 col. D Hoff.
0544 wedgetail 1 @ light
0550 wedgetail 2 S light
0554 wedgetail 3 SE light
0657 Noddy 1 N
0557 Sooty Tern 1 S
0558 wedgetail 2 S right
0605 Bulwer's 2 E
0605 wedgetail 2 E light
C 0605 Sooty Tern 2 one collected (Hoff)
0610 wedgetail 2 @ light
0605 BFB 1 following ad.
FF 0620 wedgetail 2074
Sooty tern 15:55
Tropicbird sp 1
Frigate 1 ♀
0628 wedgetail 2 S light + p
0633 petrel sp. 3 W light /
0642 Sooty Tern 3 SW ad.
0649 Larus A (
0645 Sooty Tern 2 S ad
0646 Sooty Tern 4 @ circling high
0647 wedgetail 2 @ light.
0700 BFA 3 following
Laysan (
0701 wedgetail 2 @ light
0707 wedgetail 1 W light
0708 " 3 W "
0708 Bulwer's 1 cal
FF 0715 Sooty Tern 30-5 A.S.
Wedgetails 55-110 light phase feeding lightly, prey not
Frigate sp 3 holding, entire assemblage of
B. F. Booby 3 2ad, 1 imm. birds moving in haphazard
Fairy Tern 2 fashion. From about 0700 wedgetails
Bulwer's pet 1 could be seen moving into
RFB 3 imm - the flock from all directions